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Tropidia viridifusca
Tropidia viridifusca, the dark crown orchid, is a small evergreen terrestrial orchid with upright stems and dark green pleated leaves, native to a few Pacific islands near Australia. It is a wild species rarely grown in cultivation, and it needs shade, humidity and warmth like other shade-loving terrestrial orchids.
Tropidia viridifusca, commonly known as the dark crown orchid, is an evergreen, terrestrial plant with thin, pleated, dark green leaves on a thin, upright stem with up to seven green and brown flowers crowded on a short flowering stem on top. It is only known from three Pacific Islands near Australia.
The dark crown is only known from Grande Terre in New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Norfolk Island where it grows on slopes in shady forest.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tropidia viridifusca 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.
