Dactylorfest 2013 Site 5

[fredg]

continued yet further

[fredg]

Finally got there.

Some may say I kept the best for last, that depends on what your favourites are 

[Maggi Young]

Aye aye ! I see a little interloper has sneaked in ..  ## S5 zzt  - I hope he wasn't all alone?

Must make sure Ian sees these photos - he'll be amazed.
Very heartening to see how well these plants are doing there, Fred, thanks!

[K Andrzejewski]

I wonder if anyone will try to identify the hybrids

- Dactylorhiza x hallii (maculata x praetermissa)
http://staging.testnbn.net/Taxa/NHMSYS0001754648/Grid_Map

[mark smyth]

Fred can you put a name to any of them? Were they on one site?

[shelagh]

Is it any wonder I have such difficulty naming D. with any certainty the same one can look so different.  Ah well nobody said it was easy

[fredg]

Fred can you put a name to any of them? Were they on one site?

All on one site, this is just a sample.

The most accurate name I can say is Dactylorhiza

[K Andrzejewski]

- of course Dactylorhiza - fuchsii 

[fredg]

- of course Dactylorhiza - fuchsii 

With the amount of variation and obvious hybrids on the one site, I would have to doubt that any of the orchids are straight species. Dactylorhiza after all are not particularly noted for their chastity

[K Andrzejewski]

Your pictures are showing Dactylorhiza praetermissa, maculata and fuchsii - and only a few hybrids between them, but that's not really matter: amount, size, and variety of shapes & colours is just amazing!
Kristof

[fredg]

............ amount, size, and variety of shapes & colours is just amazing!
Kristof

Of course when I go back in a fortnight it will have changed.
There are groups in amongst the scrub that are superb.

[K Andrzejewski]

- and this is beautiful group of Dactylorhiza maculata - differences between very similar photo of Dactylorhiza fuchsii clump, is clearly visible..

[fredg]

Sorry but the group photos really do need the larger size like this.
 


Then I think back to dial-up connections and it would have taken 20 minutes just to download this photo. It wasn't that long ago.

[Maggi Young]

I'll whisper it  Fred, but I think that even on dial-up it would be worth the wait for those pix!

[shelagh]

Kristof I could do with some help identifying some orchids I put up on Estonian Odyssey.