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Caladenia tentaculata
Caladenia tentaculata, the eastern mantis orchid, is a deciduous terrestrial ground orchid from south-eastern Australia that grows from an underground tuber and bears up to three green, red-striped flowers in spring. It is a wild-collected native rather than a common garden plant, so care is mostly about leaving it undisturbed in its natural habitat.
Caladenia tentaculata, commonly known as the eastern mantis orchid, large green-comb, green comb or fringed spider orchid is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a ground orchid with a single, hairy leaf and up to three green flowers with red stripes on the sepals and petals.
The eastern mantis orchid is widespread through Victoria, eastern New South Wales and south-eastern South Australia, growing in heath, woodland and forest.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Caladenia tentaculata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
