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Caladenia variegata
Pink fingers is a small terrestrial orchid native to New Zealand, growing from an underground tuber with a single long leaf and one or two pink flowers in summer. It is a native forest orchid best left in leaf litter and shade rather than grown in ordinary garden beds.
Caladenia variegata is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to New Zealand. It has a single, sparsely hairy, long, thin leaf and one or two pink flowers.
Caladenia variegata occurs on both the North and South Islands of New Zealand and on the Chatham Islands, growing in forest, usually in leaf litter.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Caladenia variegata 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.
