Oh and the largest congregation of both Early Marsh Orchids and Southern Marsh Orchids are underneath this lot somewhere ...
Showing posts with label dactylorhiza. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dactylorhiza. Show all posts
Monday, 20 April 2015
THE BRITISH AURICULA
I am not going to say much about the following photographs ... I have said it all before anyway lol ...
Saturday, 29 June 2013
DAY OF THE ORCHIDS - FEW MORE COMMON SPOTTED ORCHIDS
A managed to find some Common Spotted Orchids which were still in full flower unlike the previous ones I had found at a site I have not seen them at in 5 years or more?!
Saturday, 8 June 2013
SOUTHERN MARSH ORCHID & EARLY MARSH ORCHID DACTYLORHIZA PRAETERMISSA & INCARNATA
A few more shots of some stunning British Orchids on a site where they are slowly declining in numbers unfortunately.
Saturday, 18 May 2013
SOUTHERN MARSH ORCHID - DACTYLORHIZA PRAETERMISSA
May 17th 2013 and the Southern Marsh Orchids placed here artificially but they state are natural have not even flowered...STILL?!?!
This is by far the longest they have taken to emerge in 6 years of visiting this particular site.
Hoping they all make a show?!
Oddly another site I have been visiting for two years I have YET to see one single Orchid?!
I did put up some pictures recently of what I THOUGHT were Orchids MAGICALLY appearing on the site I refer to but have to confess I think I misidentified young Bluebells as young Marsh Orchids?!
Too desperate to see ... SOMETHING?!
Conundrum post and Common Spotted Orchids coming in next 24 hours.
LMAO.
This is by far the longest they have taken to emerge in 6 years of visiting this particular site.
Hoping they all make a show?!
Oddly another site I have been visiting for two years I have YET to see one single Orchid?!
I did put up some pictures recently of what I THOUGHT were Orchids MAGICALLY appearing on the site I refer to but have to confess I think I misidentified young Bluebells as young Marsh Orchids?!
Too desperate to see ... SOMETHING?!
Conundrum post and Common Spotted Orchids coming in next 24 hours.
LMAO.
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
MAGIC BRITISH ORCHIDS
Magically appearing Orchids where there were NONE before.
There are supposedly 3 or 4 species of Orchid at this spot but the only one I am interested in spotting is the Common Twayblade. Supposedly the commonest of all in this park I have yet to see a single flower.
I did find a couple of plants last year that looked like they could be them, or the year before, but did not find them again.
Now that I have looked at the pictures I took, difficult when not in flower, I had though these were Marsh Orchids of the Dactylorhiza genus but now realise they look more like Bee Orchids, not listed as being present, while one likely not an Orchid at all and I am not about to dig them up looking for their tubers, lol.
Despite doing a good impression the star like pattern arrangement of the leaves I have now noted suggests this is NOT one of the Marsh Orchids?! Still I will keep a check on them nevertheless.
They are also not Twayblades with have round spoon shaped leaves and only TWO, lol.
As a matter of fact all the Orchids I am familar with so far have a bilateral shape. Could possible be Pyramidal Orchids I cannot remember what the leaves look like, lol.
Whatever these and the others turn out to be they was not there last year or the year before.
Theses look far better than the other Orchids I have visited.
There are supposedly 3 or 4 species of Orchid at this spot but the only one I am interested in spotting is the Common Twayblade. Supposedly the commonest of all in this park I have yet to see a single flower.
I did find a couple of plants last year that looked like they could be them, or the year before, but did not find them again.
Now that I have looked at the pictures I took, difficult when not in flower, I had though these were Marsh Orchids of the Dactylorhiza genus but now realise they look more like Bee Orchids, not listed as being present, while one likely not an Orchid at all and I am not about to dig them up looking for their tubers, lol.
Despite doing a good impression the star like pattern arrangement of the leaves I have now noted suggests this is NOT one of the Marsh Orchids?! Still I will keep a check on them nevertheless.
They are also not Twayblades with have round spoon shaped leaves and only TWO, lol.
As a matter of fact all the Orchids I am familar with so far have a bilateral shape. Could possible be Pyramidal Orchids I cannot remember what the leaves look like, lol.
Whatever these and the others turn out to be they was not there last year or the year before.
Theses look far better than the other Orchids I have visited.
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