Orchidaceae

Custard Orchid

A yellow sun orchid

Splendid spider orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Splendid Spider Orchid, Caladenia splendens the second largest of our white spider orchids. The calli have white tips and the petals are very long and taper very quickly .

Bird Orchid

This orchid which grows to about 25cm high. The flower has a distinctive shiny, patterned appearance. The colours on the single flower range from a network of green,

Purple Pansy Orchid

Mosquito Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.

Purple Beard Orchid

Leaf linear to lanceolate, to 30 cm long and 13 mm wide, dark green. Inflorescence to 46 cm high, 1–5-flowered. Sepals and lateral petals reddish brown with darker stripes. Labellum c. 15 mm long,

Cleopatra's Needles

Grows to 35cm in height. Early Flowering

Pink Fairy Orchid

Grows to 100mm - 250mm in height Striking pink flowers

Caladenia denticulata subsp. red flowering

This orchid has the same characteristics as the Yellow spider orchid except that the petals are red in colour.

Purple Pansy Orchid

One of our donkey orchids

Dense Mignonette Orchid

Widespread in Lower South West of WA. Grows 20-50cm Can have up to 150 flowers in the cone shaped flower spike

King in his Carriage Orchid

Grows to 100mm - 350mm in height

Hare Orchid

Early flowering species Grows 100-250mm One or two oblong, green purple striped leaves

Fringed Leek Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Fringed Leek Orchid, Prasophyllum fimbria which can be common in the general southwest of WA area but usually only flowers after fire.

Tall Leek, Snake or Piano Orchid

Photo by Graeme W. The Tall Leek, Snake or Piano Orchid Prasophyllum elatum. Found in isolated pockets of the south west , it only flowers after fire. This orchid can grow to 120cms tall.

Tiger Orchid

medium sized orchid growing in coastal heathland in Bridport, Tasmania.

Forrest Mantis Orchid

photo by Graeme W.

Warty Hammer Orchid

Photo by Graeme W.

Dunsborough Donkey Orchid

Grows to 150mm - 550mm in height. Narrow coastal distribution.

Yawning Leek Orchid.

Photo by Graeme W. An unusual one in that it should only flower after summer fire but there has been no fire where I found this. Prasophyllum hians, the Yawning Leek Orchid.

Slender Onion Orchid

You could easily mistake this common little orchid for grass. A small terrestrial orchid with 10s of tiny flowers crowded along a flowering spike that can grow up tp to 30cm tall.

Heberle's spider orchid

Tuberous, perennial herb, 0.2-0.45 m high. Flowers Sept. to Oct. Grows in Sand, clayey loam and gravel.

Northern Bee Orchid

Grows up to 200-400mm in height. Two to six basal leaves Up to five pale yellow brown marked flowers

Pink Enamel Orchid