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Dipodium ensifolium
Dipodium ensifolium is a tuberous terrestrial orchid from north-east Queensland with sword-shaped leaves and pink to mauve spotted flowers. It is easy in pots in warm climates with bright light.
Dipodium ensifolium, commonly known as leafy hyacinth-orchid, is an orchid species that is endemic to north-east Queensland. It has sword-shaped leaves and up to twenty pink to mauve flowers with purplish spots and blotches.
This orchid is easily grown in pots in warm climates and bright light.
The leafy hyacinth orchid grows in forest and woodland between Cooktown and Ingham. Plants develop long, lanky growths except when above ground parts are destroyed by fire, when they quickly produce new growth.
Dipodium ambiguum · Purple hyacinth orchid · Dipodium bicallosum · Dipodium brevilabium · Bell-flower hyacinth orchid · Dipodium conduplicatum · Dipodium elegans · Dipodium elegantulum · Dipodium fevrellii · Dipodium fragrans · Palau Hyacinth Orchid · Dipodium gracile
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dipodium ensifolium 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.
