Dactylorhiza Black and Purple

[mark smyth]

Does anyone know where I can buy a plant of Dactylorhiza black and purple?
http://rareplants.co.uk/product.asp?P_ID=1277&strPageHistory=related

[Maren]

Hi Mark,

don't know of a source for this plant but you can see a lovely picture of the hyperchromic form of Dactylorhiza fuchsii v. rhodocheila on the Hardy Orchid Society website, photographed by Patrick Marks http://www.hardyorchidsociety.org.uk/dacfucr3.htm.

[mark smyth]

wow that's a stunner. Thanks for the link

[Torsten Junker]

I have been on the look out for that as well Mark, no luck yet 
If you do find anything, please do let me know as well!

[Maren]

If I were a cynic, I would say that there are some suppliers who list desirable plants "out of stock", knowing that they have no chance of obtaining them, but hoping all the same that the disappointed punter will browse their site and settle for something available. Just one of "the various contrivances" ...

There are, of course, those who've just run out of stock. If I really want something that's out of stock, I ring the supplier and ask when it will be in stock. If the answer is:"dunno", then I know.

[Ulla Hansson]

My sister lives in our childhood home, it is in an area where it grows various wild orchids, including Dactylorhiza maculata. We usually each spring go out and look at them. I have on several occasions seen plants with almost completely dark leaves. On those plants are always the flowers darker. Though not as dark as the picture that Mark had in his link to RarePlants.
I have seen plants for sale some years ago, but can not remember where.

[Neil]

Christian Lueg at http://www.ground-orchids.de,  had Dactylorhiza fuchsii v. rhodocheila for sale a couple of years back. May be worth contacting him.

[mark smyth]

I hate the flying flowers on that web site

[Gerhard Raschun]

Sorry for my long absence.

This offer is already several years old. I have raised the seedlings in my lab and PC bought the entire breeding.

The pict shows a mother plant, founded in Styria  / Austria on a road embankment by a German grower. At the moment nearly all plants in different collections are disappeared. IŽll try to get material from the few remnants to start again with a breeding project.

It is a unique clone and a great number of seedlings , also in interspecies crosses, show hyperchromatic influence and especially dark leaves !

By the way, its correct name is Dact. fuchsii `Black purple `

[mark smyth]

THanks Gerhard. Keep us informed about new Dactylorhizas