Terrestrial orchids 2015

[SteveC2]

You have to love the variety of these terrestrial orchids.  Moving from the huge Himantoglossum caprinum   (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=8036.450 )to one of my tiny Corysanthes diemenica (aka Corybas diemenicus).  A first flowering for me but I am glad to see the single tuber has bulked up to three in one season.  (There is a third plant growing, but it is hidden and not flowering, honest!)
Difficult to photograph as it is sitting so low in the pot.  The tubers are tiny so I didn't repot last year for fear of losing them.
Yes that is a 5p in the picture for scale.

[Maggi Young]

You have to love the variety of these terrestrial orchids.  Moving from the huge Himantoglossum caprinum to one of my tiny Corysanthes diemenica (aka Corybas diemenicus.  A first flowering for me but I am glad to see the single tuber has bulked up to three in one season.  (There is a third plant growing, but it is hidden and not flowering, honest!)
Difficult to photograph as it is sitting so low in the pot.  The tubers are tiny so I didn't repot last year for fear of losing them.
Yes that is a 5p in the picture for scale.

Not sure how one can describe these tiny orchids as anything other than "cute"
 Very nearly invisible to the naked eye!!

Yes that is a 5p in the picture for scale.

For those outside the UK - (or for those here who never deal with anything less than a  fifty quid note    ) - a  5p piece is 18mm in diameter

[SteveC2]

What's a fifty quid note look like?  Never seen one for real, only in Monopoly!

Just imagine looking for Corybas in the wild.  The damage you could do is frightening.

[johnstephen29]

I don't think I have seen a fifty either steve, maybe just as well a lot of places will not accept them. I was in my local cooplands bakery the other day and I noticed a sign near the till saying they don't take them.

[Tony Willis]

Steve

really lovely,mine have just rotted off after two successful years.

The perception is that most £50 notes are forgeries,so shops will not take them.True or not I have no idea.

[Maren]

Lovely Corybas or whatever it must be called now, Steve C2. Mine did rot off eventually. Pity.

[SteveC2]

Lovely Corybas or whatever it must be called now, Steve C2. Mine did rot off eventually. Pity.

I only found the Corysanthes name when I was trying to buy the tubers.  Even though it says Corysanthes on the label they are Corybas in my mind, in the same way that Himantoglossum robertianum will always be a Barlia to me.

It was Maren's photograph on this forum, with her finger used for scaling, which inspired me to try Corybas so it is a little worrying when two Gurus like Tony and herself say they have lost their plants

[aldo]

for people who trade in Euros , I put my photo

[Maggi Young]

for people who trade in Euros , I put my photo

 

[WimB]

Ophrys tenthredinifera (got it as var. viridiflora but I don't know if that is correct) in flower today.

[goofy]

hello frlends,
some of my "terrestrials" make their flowers in 2015:

Orchis anatolica


after many years of cultivation (try and error)  I have the first flower from the "strange"
Changnienia amoena (from China)


enjoy

[Maren]

Congratulations, that's very pretty.

[goofy]

hello friends,
here flowers the first Pterostylis in the greenhouse this spring

Pterostylis pedunculata  (corrected)


enjoy

[SteveC2]

Are you sure it is not pedunculata?  I cannot find any record of punctulata.
I have spent some time this week trawling the net looking for Pterostylis species having seen some Pterostlis "curta"which must have been two feet tall at least, with huge dark green leaves.  All I can say is that if these were curta then mine are not! 

[Neil]

that looks like Pterostylis pedunculata to me