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Habenaria mossii
Also called Fuzzy Ghost Orchid
Habenaria mossii is a terrestrial South African orchid that grows from a tuber, found in grassland of eastern Gauteng and the central Eastern Cape. It is rarely grown in cultivation and is threatened in the wild, so it should not be collected from the wild.
Habenaria mossii is a species of plant in the family Orchidaceae. It is a tuberous geophyte endemic to eastern Gauteng and central Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa. Its natural habitat is Highveld (temperate high-elevation grassland). It is threatened by habitat loss.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Habenaria mossii 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.
