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Anatolian orchid

Orchis anatolica

Anatolian orchid
Photo: דרור פייטלסון, CC BY 2.5

Orchis anatolica is a wild tuberous terrestrial orchid from the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, rarely grown in gardens. It is grown from tubers in a cool, bright, well-drained spot that has a dry summer rest.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Bulb
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Water moderately during the autumn-to-spring growing season and keep almost dry while dormant in summer.
Soil
Gritty, free-draining mix such as sandy loam with added grit or bark.
Temperature
10–22 °C; tolerates light frost when dormant, protect tubers from hard freeze
How easy
Hard
Native range
Aegean Is. to Israel and W. Iran
Climate
subtropical

About

Orchis anatolica is a species of flowering plant in the Orchidaceae family. It is native to Crete, Cyprus, the East Aegean Islands, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, the Palestine region, Syria, and Turkey.

Other Orchis plants

Orchis adenocheila · Man orchid · Branciforti's orchid · Orchis canariensis · Galilee Orchid · Naked Man Orchid · Early Purple Orchid · Military orchid · Pale orchid · Orchis patens · Provence orchid · Small-dotted Orchis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Orchis anatolica 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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