orchids in the wild 2011

[Joakim B]

Orchids are nice both in the wild and at shows or in their pots at home so  hope that we can see some more orchids from the wild.
These plants was part of the once I saw on the first Sunday in March with the Lisbon group of APO (Portuguese orchid association).
I finished the batteries of the camera in the first place so have no pics of the second or third sites
Early march is mostly Ophrys and Barila time and if lucky some nice bulbs as well.
We saw Ophrys lutea in big numbers and O tenthredinifera as well as a few O. fusca and a lot of Barlia robertiana at the first site and in the second the fusca was so big that they were bigger than the Barila (well almost and without evidence I can be less strict with the truth) This site also had Orchis (Neotinea) tridentata and on the third we saw some big Orchis italica. There was also a plant of Aceras (Orchis) anthropophorum in bud

[Tony Willis]

I have put some pictures of orchids in the wild in the travel section under Spain

[mark smyth]

I'll have to put O. lutea on my wants list. Will it grow here?

[Neil]

Were you are Mark, best grown under glass.

[xthomasx]

The first orchids in flower here: Neottia nidus-avis in a beech forest at about 500 asl.

[Maren]

Well spotted, these Birds Nest orchids are really tricky because they blend into their environment, not having any green (chlorophyll) in them. A very nice colony. We have them in beech forests here where I live, but none have come up yet.