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Diuris calcicola

Diuris calcicola
Photo: Kym Nicolson, CC BY 4.0

Diuris calcicola is a tuberous terrestrial donkey orchid from South Australia, with one or two grass-like leaves and up to five bright yellow flowers on a slender stem. It is a wild species grown mainly by native plant and orchid enthusiasts, and it needs cool, dry summers with a winter-wet period.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Grass, Orchid
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water lightly while in active growth in winter and spring, then keep almost dry during summer dormancy.
Soil
Sandy or gritty, free-draining soil with some lime, similar to its native limestone plains.
Temperature
10–25 °C; tolerates cold but should be kept out of hard frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
South Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Diuris brevifolia is a species of orchid that is endemic to South Australia. It usually has one or two grass-like leaves and a flowering stem with up to five bright yellow and reddish-brown flowers with purple stalks.

Where it grows

This donkey orchid usually grows on limestone plains and rises, in mallee woodland or shrubland, sometimes in grassy woodland mostly to the east of the Murray River in south-eastern South Australia.

Other Diuris plants

Lemon doubletail · Buttercup doubletail · White donkey orchid · Diuris amabilis · Giant donkey orchid · Tomaree donkey orchid · Golden Donkey Orchid · Little golden moths · Golden Cowslips · Diuris brachyscapa · Diuris bracteata · Short-leaved donkey orchid

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Diuris calcicola 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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