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Gastrodia javanica is a leafless, holomycotrophic orchid that lives underground and gets its food by parasitising fungi, not by photosynthesis. It is a wild woodland species of Southeast Asia and is not grown as a garden or houseplant, so care advice is largely not applicable.
Gastrodia javanica, or Javanese chijian (Japanese: 爪哇赤箭), is an epiparasitic species of orchid native to Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. The species normally grows to a height of 20 to 80 centimeters, and has pale yellow or green-yellow flowers.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gastrodia javanica 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.
