Caladenia Excelsa
''Caladenia excelsa'', commonly known as the giant spider orchid, is a species of orchid Endemism, endemic to a small area in the Southwest Australia, south-west of Western Australia. It is a rare species with a single, hairy leaf and up to three cream-coloured to greenish-cream flowers with long, drooping sepals and petals. It is one of the tallest spider orchids in Western Australia and, with ''Caladenia splendens'', has the largest flowers of any Western Australian orchid. Description ''Caladenia excelsa'' is a terrestrial, Perennial plant, perennial, deciduous, Herbaceous plant, herb with an underground tuber and a single erect, hairy leaf, long and wide. One or two cream-coloured to greenish-cream flowers long and wide are borne on a stalk tall. The sepals and petals have long, brownish, drooping thread-like tips. The wikt:dorsal, dorsal sepal curves backwards behind the flower, long and wide at the base. The wikt:lateral, lateral sepals are long and wide at th ...
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Yallingup, Western Australia
Yallingup is a town in the South West (Western Australia), South West region of Western Australia, south of Perth, Western Australia, Perth. Yallingup is a popular tourist destination because of its beaches and limestone caves, and proximity to Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park. History and industry Yallingup's name means "Place of caves" in the local Aboriginal Wardandi dialect, with "yal" meaning "large hole"; the name has been rumoured to mean "place of love" due to the popularity of weddings and honeymoons in the town. After its caves were discovered by European settlers in 1899, Yallingup became popular with tourists, and its early infrastructure was photographed by Amelia Bunbury, Coyarre. There was a state primary school in Yallingup from 1905 to 1963; the site now contains a Waldorf education, Steiner school. Around 1920, the Yallingup Hall, which was previously a school building in Karridale, Western Australia, Karridale, was moved to the townsite and reassembled. Touris ...
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