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Scientific Name
Leptoceras menziesii
Family Name
ORCHIDACEAE
Common Name
Hare's Ears (orchid)
Status
Height
0.08m - 0.25m (8-25cm)
Flowers
small purfumed flowers that have prominant paired white lateral sepals, hooded red dorsal sepal and erect dark red petals resembling ears.
Fruit
Papery capsule
Form
Colony forming orchid with a bright green, hairless, ovate-lanceolate ground-hugging leaf, wiry scape.
Municipalities
Break O'Day; Burnie; Circular Head; Dorset; Flinders Island; Georgetown; King Island; Kingborough; Latrobe; Launceston; Meander Valley; West Tamar
Communities
Dry Eucalypt Forest and Woodland; Heath
Habitat Notes
Heathland and heathy open eucalypt forest on well-drained peaty and sandy soils. Locally fairly common in low and coastal areas mostly in the north, including King Is and the Furneaux Group. However there is a herbarium record by L.Rodway in 1893 from Sandfly in the south-east. Also in NSW, Vic., SA and WA.
Site Tolerance
Dry; Exposed; Shady
Frost Tolerance
Tender
Soil Tolerance
Poor; Sandy; Well-drained
General Notes
Suitable below powerlines.
Propagation Details
Propagation Calendar
Flowering Months
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Sowing Months
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Cutting Months
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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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