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Small potato orchid
Gastrodia vescula
About
Gastrodia vescula, commonly known as small potato orchid, is a leafless terrestrial mycotrophic orchid in the family Orchidaceae. It has a very thin, brittle, light brown flowering stem with up to three pale brown flowers that are white on the inside. It is only known from a small area near the border between South Australia and Victoria.
- Family
- Orchidaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Gastrodia vescula
- Slug
- gastrodia-vescula
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Genus
- Gastrodia
- Species
- vescula
- Wikidata QID
- Q1495629
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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