King Spider Orchid
10 Day Flower, profile
King Spider Orchid
33 Day Flower, starting to dry
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| King Spider Orchid 10 Day Flower, profile | | King Spider Orchid 33 Day Flower, starting to dry | | ||
Animals Plants Info |
 | Class: | Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) | ||||||||||||||||
| Order: | Asparagus (Asparagales) | |||||||||||||||||
| Family: | Orchid (Orchidaceae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||||||
| Species: | King Spider Orchid (Caladenia tentaculata)| This Photo: | 20 Day Flower, above | Synonym: | Arachnorchis tentaculata | Other names: | Eastern Mantis Orchid, Large Green-comb, Green comb or Fringed Spider Orchid | Thank you Reiner Richter & Geoffrey Cox for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found in the Murray-Darling, SA, Adelaide Hills, Coastal Areas and possibly elsewhere We were quite amazed this, one and only flower we've ever had, lasted for over a month. So a number of shots shown here as it's ages. On the 1st day it took quite a while to unravel, but by the 2nd day you can see the lower petals have crossed and the top petal hanging overhead in an arc; almost like a ballarina. A large native orchid standing at ~300mm high, with the labelum being ~10mm wide and the petals approximately 40mm long.
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