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Eriochilus petricola is a small, slender terrestrial ground orchid from New South Wales, with a single leaf and up to three white to pale pink flowers, growing from an underground tuber on and near rock ledges. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, so care is mainly about mimicking its dry, sandy, rocky habitat.
Eriochilus petricola is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a slender ground orchid with a single leaf and up to three small, white to pale pink flowers and grows near rock ledges.
This orchid grows in shallow, sandy soil on and near rock ledges between Nowra, Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and inland to the Blue Mountains.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eriochilus petricola 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.
