10/10/2026
Have you ever grown any endangered species?🤫🌿 This is Phaius australis, otherwise known as The Lesser Swamp Orchid. Which is interesting because it’s actually Australia’s Largest terrestrial orchid. It grows along Australia’s East coast, but is currently endangered due to land clearing. It grows in Paperbark swamps, in sandy soils that stay continuously moist. One benefit of growing endangered species is that if you grow from offsets rather than seed, the plants are clones of the original wild type plant, and can always be re-introduced to the wild.