Terrestrial orchids 2015

[Corrado & Rina]

All of my images are of (my own) cultivated plants.

What a collection Steve!! Thanks for the information .... for the frame are you using a 50% shaded net and you leave it in full sun?

Best,

[Steve Garvie]

What a collection Steve!! Thanks for the information .... for the frame are you using a 50% shaded net and you leave it in full sun?

Best,

The frame is in full sun between 11am and 3pm. It is covered by 50% shade cloth as you suspected but this arrangement provides a bit too much shade and some of the plants get a bit leggy.

[Tony Willis]

last of mine to flower before the dactylorhiza start.

two forms of  Orchis laxiflora

Cephalanthera lancifolia

Neotinea tridentata

Orchis mascula

[SteveC2]

A few oddities flowering now.

Dactylorhiza x mixta, courtesy of John Hagger, a hybrid between Common Spotted Orchid, D. fuchsii, and the Frog Orchid, D. viridis.  Plant looks exactly like any other fuchsii but the flowers are very strange, more frog like.  I assume John used a pale fuchsii as parent.  Odd but I like it. 

Then Dactylorhiza x influenza, (strange name!) courtesy of Andrew Bannister.  Hybrid of Dactylorhiza sambucina and fuchsii.  Plant looks very sambucinaesque, but flowers less so.  Fills the gap between my wintergreens and the main flush of dactylorhiza.

Finally Amitostigma keiskei.  I've had this a few years and it has finally reached four tubers, so far less vigorous than hybrids like enamotoe.  Three in here, I gave the fourth away.  I call it Elvis, (think Suspicious Minds video, Las Vegas shows etc.) 

[Steve Garvie]

Anacamptis pyramidalis Pale form


Anacamptis pyramidalis Dark form


Anacamptis laxiflora


Gymnadenia conopsea A giant form.

[Tony Willis]

Steve those are beautiful

[erf]

Superb pictures and plants Steve. Realy fantastic.
Erling

[Yann]

In the countryside terrestrial orchids are blooming, a few colors among dry grassland.
Himantoglossum hircinum
Platanthera chlorantha
Ophrys apifera

[Tony Willis]

One for lovers of green things,an acquired taste!

Listera cordata

and Dactylorhiza baumanniana

[Neil]

I love the Listera cordata, never seen Dactylorhiza baumanniana in cultivation before, may I have some seed please Tony.

[Steve Garvie]

I love the delicate colour of this Dactylorhiza Tony.

[Steve Garvie]

Amitostigma gonggashanicum A tiny wee species which has simple but attractive flowers.


Amitostigma simplex



Ponerorchis chusua


Galearis spectabilis

[pehe]

Orchis purpurea

The first pic from the wild, the others from my garden.

Poul

[Yann]

Here're some photos of a spot not so far from where i live.
There you can find Ophrys apifera, Coeloglossum viride, Platanthera bifolia and chlorantha and lot's of other rare sub-mediterranean plants.

[Yann]

some more from the dry grassland