ORCHIDACEAE

Pink Fairies (orchid)

 

0.08m - 0.25m (8-25cm) 

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. 

Papery capsule 

Leaf broadly lanceolate, bright green, very hairy on both surfaces, usually lax on the ground. Scape wiry and hairy. 

Break O'Day; Burnie; Central Highlands; Clarence; Derwent Valley; Dorset; Flinders Island; Georgetown; Glamorgan-Spring Bay; King Island; Latrobe 

Coastal Vegetation; Dry Eucalypt Forest and Woodland 

Windblown salt-spray areas near the sea, Coastal scrub, grassland, tea-tree scrub and she-oak woodland. 

Dry; Exposed; Exposed; Moist; Windy 

Tender 

Loam; Sandy; Well-drained 

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. 

 

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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.