Cooktown Orchid

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Cooktown OrchidThe Cooktown Orchid, has been the floral emblem of Queensland since 19 November 1959. It was first described in 1880.

It lives in a wide variety of habitats ranging from coastal scrub on trees and rocks, to mangroves, riverine vegetation, rainforest, vine thickets, gullies in open forest and even swamps. It used to be prolific around Cooktown but is now rare in the wild, due to over-collecting by commercial collectors.

Likes a dry, sunny position with a minimum of watering and a temperature not below 13°C. Needs a bush-house in cooler climates. Cultivated plants often have much larger flowers than those in the wild.

It occurs naturally in a limited area from the Endeavour River Valley, west of Cooktown, south to the Font Hills, west of Mount Molloy, in far northern Queensland.

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