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Scott River spider orchid

Caladenia thinicola

Scott River spider orchid
Photo: Geoff Derrin, CC BY-SA 4.0

Caladenia thinicola is a small, deciduous terrestrial orchid from south-west Western Australia that grows from an underground tuber and flowers in spring. It is a wild species of sandy woodland and is rarely grown in gardens, so care notes here are general orchid guidance.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Light
Part shade
Water
Water sparingly while the leaf is active in winter and spring, then keep dry while dormant in summer.
Soil
Free-draining sandy soil or a gritty terrestrial orchid mix.
Temperature
10–25 °C; protect from frost and heat above 30 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Caladenia thinicola, commonly known as the Scott River spider orchid, is a species of orchid endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has a single erect, hairy leaf and up to four yellowish-green and red flowers with a fringe of long teeth on the sides of the labellum and thick brown, club-like glandular tips on the sepals.

Where it grows

The Scott River spider orchid is found between Cape Naturaliste and the Warren River in the Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren biogeographic regions where it grows in deep sand in woodland in coastal areas.

Other Caladenia plants

Coastal spider orchid · Canberra spider orchid · Caladenia ×aestantha · Summer spider orchid · Fairy orchid · Stegostyla Alpina · Boranup spider orchid · Bundarra spider orchid · Charming spider orchid · Dainty spider orchid · Dainty blue china orchid · Genoa spider orchid

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Caladenia thinicola 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.

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