Plants > Orchidaceae & Terrestrial Orchids
The Granite Spider Orchid (Caladenia granitora) is a magnificent, windswept geophyte native exclusively to the rugged granite coastline of southern Western Australia. Characterized by its large, dramatic flowers with long, swept-back yellowish-green and maroon tepals,...
Plants > Orchidaceae & Terrestrial Orchids
The Sandplain Sun Orchid (Thelymitra psammophila) is a rare and striking terrestrial orchid endemic to the specialized winter-wet sandplains of southwestern Western Australia. Renowned for its radiant golden-yellow, star-shaped blossoms that open only under bright,...
Plants > Orchidaceae & Terrestrial Orchids
The Beautiful Mignonette Orchid (Microtis pulchella) is an elegant, tall terrestrial orchid native to the freshwater swamps, winter-wet flats, and peaty seepage zones of southwestern Western Australia. Recognized within the onion orchid genus for its unusually large,...
Plants > Orchidaceae & Terrestrial Orchids
French’s Greenhood (Pterostylis frenchii) is an attractive and robust terrestrial greenhood orchid native to the coastal sandplains and tuart forests of southwestern Western Australia. Characterized by its tall flowering stem bearing a loose spike of translucent...
Plants > Orchidaceae & Terrestrial Orchids
Jackson’s Sun Orchid (Thelymitra jacksonii) is a strikingly beautiful and rare terrestrial sun orchid native to the swamp margins and seasonally wet paperbark flats of southern Western Australia. Unlike typical blue-flowered sun orchids, this threatened species...
