Plants > Orchidaceae & Terrestrial Orchids
The Large Gnat Orchid (Cyrtostylis robusta) is an attractive and widespread winter-to-spring flowering terrestrial orchid native to the coastal sandplains and woodlands of southern Australia. Emerging from a single, fleshy, circular or kidney-shaped ground-hugging...
Plants > Orchidaceae & Terrestrial Orchids
Chapman’s Spider Orchid (Caladenia chapmanii) is a distinguished and handsome terrestrial spider orchid endemic to the moist, high-rainfall tall forests of southwestern Western Australia. Named in honor of dedicated field botanist Eric Chapman, this species...
Plants > Orchidaceae & Terrestrial Orchids
The Common Donkey Orchid (Diuris corymbosa), often known as the Wallflower Orchid, is one of the most prolific and joyful wildflowers heralds of springtime in southwestern Australia. Producing a corymb-like cluster of golden-yellow flowers boldly decorated with...
Plants > Orchidaceae & Terrestrial Orchids
The Banded Greenhood (Pterostylis vittata) is an exquisite and widespread winter-flowering terrestrial orchid native to the temperate woodlands and coastal scrub of southern Australia. Distinctively adorned with translucent green hooded flowers highlighted by...
Plants > Orchidaceae & Terrestrial Orchids
The Common Mignonette Orchid (Microtis media) is one of the most resilient, abundant, and widespread terrestrial orchids in Western Australia. Rising from damp depressions, swamp edges, and mossy granite aprons as a single erect, hollow tubular leaf that pierces the...
