Caladenia carnea
Pink Fingers at Hackett, ACT
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| Caladenia carnea | MattM | 28 Sep 2021 | |
| Caladenia sp. | WalterEgo | 27 Sep 2021 |
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User's notes
On a suburban nature strip, several hundred metres from a nature reserve. A pleasant surprise!
2 comments
28 Sep 2021
Any idea how it came to be here? It's a nature strip in an established suburb. Used to be couch grass lawn. We've been attempting to regenerate it with local natives. Old seed bank? Could a seed have come in via potting mix? How are their seeds naturally dispersed?
28 Sep 2021
Orchid seed are tiny and can trace large distance in the wind. Most orchids require particular fungi to grow so perhaps the more pertinent question is how the fungi got there?
Location information
- Places Hackett, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
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Species information
- Caladenia carnea Scientific name
- Pink Fingers Common name
- Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1412m Recorded at altitude
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Synonyms
Petalochilus carneus
Seasonal activity
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In flower
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