Common name:
Purplish Beard Orchid

Family name:
Orchidaceae

Botanical name:
Calochilus robertsonii

Flowering/fruiting season:
October

Location:
'Locally common but not widespread in dry sclerophyll forest, eg Black Mountain;' (Burbidge & Gray, 1976:128)

Use:

  • Food
  • Tuber eaten (see Flood, 1980:94)

Notes:

Language names:

Purplish Beard Orchid

Horticulture :
Terrestrial orchids '… generally considered difficult and short-lived in cultivation…' (Wrigley & Fagg, 1998:626)

Similar species:
C. campestris (Copper Beard Orchid) often grows with C. robertsonii but much less common (Burbidge & Gray, 1976:128)

Use code:
ROOT

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