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
The Glossy-leaved Hammer Orchid (Drakaea elastica), also known as the Praying Virgin, is an extraordinarily rare and evolutionarily specialized terrestrial orchid endemic strictly to the Swan Coastal Plain of southwestern Australia. Famous for its bizarre,...
Plants > Orchidaceae & Epiphytic Orchids
The Demon Orchid (Telipogon diabolicus) is one of the most astonishing botanical discoveries of the 21st century, formally described in 2016 from a tiny, fragile habitat patch in the high-elevation Andean cloud forests of southern Colombia. Named for its bizarre,...
