Plants > Orchidaceae & Terrestrial Orchids
Purdie’s Donkey Orchid (Diuris purdiei) is a rare, fire-dependent terrestrial orchid endemic to the rapidly urbanizing Swan Coastal Plain of Western Australia. Featuring delicate pale yellow flowers etched with fine purple-brown veins, this threatened orchid is...
Plants > Orchidaceae & Terrestrial Orchids
The Tall Donkey Orchid (Diuris drummondii) is a towering, magnificent terrestrial orchid endemic to southwest Western Australia. Standing up to a meter in height, it is the tallest member of the donkey orchid genus *Diuris*. Inhabiting deep winter-wet peat swamps and...
Plants > Orchidaceae & Terrestrial Orchids
The Star Sun Orchid (Thelymitra stellata) is a captivating, endangered terrestrial orchid endemic to the ironstone ridges and gravel plateaus of southwestern Australia. Distinct among sun orchids for its unusual bronze, copper, and golden-orange starry flowers, it is...
Plants > Orchidaceae & Terrestrial Orchids
Dedman’s Sun Orchid (Thelymitra dedmaniarum) is an extraordinarily rare and beautiful terrestrial orchid strictly endemic to the granite monadnocks of Western Australia’s Darling Scarp. Renowned for its large, intensely fragrant blossoms that open wide...
Plants > Orchidaceae & Terrestrial Orchids
The Boddington Spider Orchid (Caladenia hopperiana) is one of the rarest flowering plants in the world, discovered only in recent decades within a severely restricted quartz gravel gully system near Boddington, Western Australia. Displaying elegant ivory-white to pale...
Plants > Orchidaceae & Terrestrial Orchids
The Majestic Spider Orchid (Caladenia winfieldii) is widely regarded as the crowning jewel of Australian spider orchids, renowned for its immense, intensely vivid cherry-pink blossoms and spectacular floral architecture. Restricted to a fragile, localized freshwater...
Plants > Orchidaceae & Terrestrial Orchids
Bussell’s Spider Orchid (Caladenia busselliana) is a critically endangered terrestrial orchid of remarkable delicacy and rarity, known naturally from only a tiny footprint on Western Australia’s southern Swan Coastal Plain. Bearing luminous pale...
Plants > Orchidaceae & Terrestrial Orchids
Lodge’s Spider Orchid (Caladenia lodgeana) is an exceptionally rare and magnificent terrestrial orchid restricted to the damp, mossy floors of giant karri and marri forests in deep southwestern Australia. Characterized by its large, robust flowers featuring pale...
Plants > Orchidaceae & Terrestrial Orchids
Christine’s Spider Orchid (Caladenia christineae) is a rare and endangered terrestrial orchid endemic to a narrow strip of seasonally flooded wetlands in southwestern Australia. Exhibiting elegant, pristine creamy-white blossoms with dramatic long-drooping...
Plants > Orchidaceae & Terrestrial Orchids
Harrington’s Spider Orchid (Caladenia harringtoniae), also frequently called the Pink Spider Orchid, is a delicate and threatened terrestrial orchid endemic to the high-rainfall forests of southwestern Australia. Flowering in late spring as winter floodwaters...
