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Dipodium hamiltonianum
Yellow hyacinth-orchid is a leafless, mostly underground orchid from eastern Australia that lives on fungi rather than sunlight and has never been reliably grown in cultivation. It is not a plant that home gardeners can successfully grow.
Dipodium hamiltonianum, commonly known as yellow hyacinth-orchid, is a leafless mycoheterotroph orchid that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has up to twenty five greenish flowers with dark red spots on a tall flowering stem.
To date, the orchid has not been brought in to cultivation or successfully transplanted due to the inability to replicate its association with mycorrhizal fungi in a horticultural context.
The species occurs from central Queensland southwards through New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory to eastern Victoria. Its altitudinal range is sea level to 800 metres AHD
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dipodium hamiltonianum 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.
