Scientific Name: Cymbidium madidum

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  • Pronunciation:
    sim-BID-ee-um mah-DID-um
  • Common Name:
    Giant Boat-lip Orchid, Broad-leaved Orchid
  • Type:
    Orchid
  • Family:
    ORCHIDACEAE
  • Status:
    Common
  • Flowers:
    Greenish brown to 15mm in spikes, spring to summer
  • Fruit:
    Capsule
  • Flowers Color:
    Brown
  • Fruit Color:
    Brown
  • Vegetation Type:
    Rainforest, Eucalypt forests-wet areas.
  • Species List:
    Weyba Esp, Heritage Park, Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, Sunshine Beach Primary, NNP service road, Cooroibah 26.4.09, Wooroi Palm Grove, NNP Viewland Upper Yandina Creek, TAFE, NNP Tanglewood, BHNR,
Cultural Notes

TAKE CARE! Some information about bush foods and medicines may be anecdotal. Correct identification and preparation is essential:

Bush medicine: Aboriginal people used seeds as a contraceptive. Bulb chewed to combat dysentery

Bush food: Bulbs are edible containing starches, eaten raw or pounded into flour and cooked.

Identification Notes

Epiphytic orchid with large pseudobulbs. Grows in tree forks, limb hollows, old stumps , forming large clumps on tree branches. Likes growing on paperbark trees