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Scientific Name
Caladenia latifolia
Family Name
ORCHIDACEAE
Common Name
Pink Fairies (orchid)
Status
Height
0.08m - 0.25m (8-25cm)
Flowers
1-2 pale pink or bright pink internally, externally duller and hairy, labellum pink, calli yellow and column pale pink with a dark pink tored anther.
Fruit
Papery capsule
Form
Leaf broadly lanceolate, bright green, very hairy on both surfaces, usually lax on the ground. Scape wiry and hairy.
Municipalities
Break O'Day; Burnie; Central Highlands; Clarence; Derwent Valley; Dorset; Flinders Island; Georgetown; Glamorgan-Spring Bay; King Island; Latrobe
Communities
Coastal Vegetation; Dry Eucalypt Forest and Woodland
Habitat Notes
Windblown salt-spray areas near the sea, Coastal scrub, grassland, tea-tree scrub and she-oak woodland.
Site Tolerance
Dry; Exposed; Exposed; Moist; Windy
Frost Tolerance
Tender
Soil Tolerance
Loam; Sandy; Well-drained
General Notes
Responds well to fire often with vigour. Unlike most Caladenia species, C. latifolia. produces several tubers on the end of stolonoid roots. Suitable below powerlines.
Propagation Details
Propagation Calendar
Flowering Months
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Seed Collecting Months
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Sowing Months
Jan
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Cutting Months
Jan
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Dec
Seed Information
Seed Collection
Seed Treatment Method
Standard
Seed Storage Life
Viable Seeds Per Gram
Seed Treatment Notes
Orchid seeds are very minute yellow, brown or blackish dust-like particles. Orchid seeds are produced within a capsule that splits at maturity and releases tousands to millions of seeds. Dispersed by wind and water and only germinate following infection of the embryo by a suitable mycorrhizal fungus. Very few seeds become mature plants. For more information see Jones, Wapstra, Tonelli, Harris (1999): The Orchids of Tasmania.
Germination Time
Suitable for Direct Seeding
Cuttings
Expected Time to Take Root
Expected Time to Plant Out
Propagation by Division
N.B. Transplant only from nearby to avoid disease.
Cutting Notes
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