Flying Duck Orchid Flower In Australia
The Caleana is more often known as the Duck Orchid for fairly obvious reasons. It looks like a duck in flight, its wings swept back, head and beak held high and proud. This attractive yet amusing addition to the orchid genus is a native of Australia, famed perhaps more for its marsupials than its mallards (platypodes aside). Yet as a result of the shape of its labellum (or lip) its anatine association will be that by which it is always remembered.
