Caladenia carnea
Pink Fingers at Molonglo Valley, ACT
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| Caladenia carnea | DerekC | 15 Oct 2022 | |
| Caladenia carnea | Tapirlord | 14 Oct 2022 |
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I think I only took one photo of this and didn't realise. No idea what type or orchid it actually is.
3 comments
14 Oct 2022
So if this wasn't a pink fingers what would tell me that it's musky fingers or something like that instead? Because the pink fingers I've seen confirmed before are such a vibrant pink and I think were smaller I thought this would be something else. (I just realised I only uploaded the bad quality cropped version have uploaded the higher quality uncropped just now)
15 Oct 2022
This is a Caladenia carnea. They can vary in colour from white to deep pink but are usually pink. There are basically two main pink Caladenia in the ACT and this is the later flowering of the two and has a more robust stem and unlike C. fuscata it can have more than a single flower. The stems of C. carnea are usually green. Caladenia moschata and the like have the petals and lateral sepals more separated/rotated with the petals arranged almost 180 deg. to each other. The petals and lateral sepals of the pink Caladenia are arranged more like fingers on the hand and hence the common name for them. In saying that the flower you have photographed is arranged with the petals and sepals quite separate and not so obvious.
16 Oct 2022
Thanks so much for the details! Its often hard not to get too focused on the more salient details like flower colour when you don't know which other details matter.
Location information
- Maps Piney Ridge Denman Prospect 2 Estate Deferred Area (Block 12) Bluetts Block (402, 403, 12, 11)
- Places Molonglo Valley, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- Ct1000 Recorded by
- Yes In flower
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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
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In flower
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