Description The Pink Fairy Orchid is a pink flowering perennial Australian native orchid. It produces star shaped flowers in spring from August to October. Flowers are usually pink, but paler and white flowering forms are known. Up to four flowers are produced on flower stems about 40 cm tall. The labellum is about 7 mm long, three lobed with a narrow triangular lobe between two lobes with pink stripes. The labellum has pale warts or calli in the centre. The leaf is hairy on both sides and about 20cm long by 3cm wide.
Habitat woodland, forest
Distribution Caladenia latifolia is found in south west of Western Australia from around Geraldton to around Esperance. It is also found in the south of South Australia, southern Victoria and Tasmania.
