Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden # 84, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
GAgirl, the northern one third of the country is in the tropics. That's also where the Great Barrier Reef is, about 2000 kilometres long along the east coast.

If you've got Google Earth, just do a find on Noonamah Australia and it will take you there (cyber trip only unfortunately). It's about 50 kilometres south of Darwin.

Debra, the Dipodium, being a saprophyte doesn't photosynthesise. It relies on specific fungus to supply it with 'food". If you don't have that fungus, or if that fungus itself isn't fed properly, the Dipodium will die. Otherwise, it can take occasional floods, direct sun, etc., and still thrive. The critical thing is the fungus.

Another non-local native I've brought in to my place, Dendrobium discolor.