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PLANT FACTS |
Map is from The Atlas of Living Australia web site, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
Common Name
Pink Hyacinth Orchid
Other Names
Rosy Hyacinth Orchid
Description
The Pink Hyacinth Orchid is a fairly large terrestrial orchid with flowering stems growing to about a metre tall. It produces clusters of up to forty pink flowers in summer from November to March. The individual flowers are rosy pink with darker pink spots on the petals and sepals. The plant has very small insignificant leaves of 1cm to 2 cm long. It is a saprophytic orchid, which means that it obtains its nutrients from organic matter in the soil. The fruit is a capsule containing fine dust like seed. This species is similar to the Hyacinth Orchid (Dipodium punctatum).
Habitat
grows in shady position in woodland, dry forest and wet eucalypt forest
Distribution
Dipodium punctatum is found in eastern New South Wales and over the border into south east Queensland, Victoria, south eastern South Australia and Tasmania
Growth Characteristics
Height: 30cm - 100cm
Classification
| Class: | Liliopsida | | Order: | Asparagales | | Family: | Orchidaceae | | Genus: | Dipodium | | Species: | roseum | | Common Name: | Pink Hyacinth Orchid |
Relatives in same Genus
Dipodium elegantulum
Dipodium punctatum
Dipodium stenochilum
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