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Phreatia crassiuscula
Plexaure crassiuscula, the green caterpillar orchid, is a small epiphytic or lithophytic orchid from tropical North Queensland with fan-like fleshy channelled leaves and tiny white to greenish flowers. It is a rainforest species rarely grown outside its native habitat, so the care guidance is based on general orchid epiphyte knowledge.
Plexaure crassiuscula, commonly known as green caterpillar orchid, is a plant in the orchid family and is an epiphyte or lithophyte with three to six fleshy, channelled leaves in a fan-like arrangement. Up to sixty tiny white, cream-coloured or greenish flowers are arranged along a curved flowering stem. It is endemic to tropical North Queensland.
Green caterpillar orchid usually grows on mossy rainforest trees between the Cedar Bay and Paluma Range National Parks.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Plexaure crassiuscula 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.
