Terrestrial Orchids 2016

[Yann]

very nice sambucina 

[ian mcdonald]

Ralph, it is early purple, Orchis mascula. It looks as if my previous post has been removed? Ralphs picture appears in two threads?

[johnralphcarpenter]

Yes, it's in British Wildflowers as well.

[Maggi Young]

Ralph, it is early purple, Orchis mascula. It looks as if my previous post has been removed? Ralphs picture appears in two threads?

Nothing removed, Ian - your reply was to Ralph in the other thread ...
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=11299.msg356964#msg356964

[ian mcdonald]

I,m easily confused.

[Steve Garvie]

Orchis ustulata -the Burnt-tip Orchid


Orchis militaris -flower spike starting to open.


Thelymitra megacalyptra -the flowers open in temperatures above 20C

[ian mcdonald]

Steve, is the military orchid in captivity? I have tried it by seed from the exchange without success. The only orchid I have grown from seed is D. praetermissa. It seeds its-self in the troughs.

[Steve Garvie]

Yes Ian.
I have bought a number of terrestrials from Heinrich Beyrle over the years. He raises many species from seed. The plants are of good quality.

[Neil]

Steve, is the military orchid in captivity? I have tried it by seed from the exchange without success. The only orchid I have grown from seed is D. praetermissa. It seeds its-self in the troughs.

It is a very difficult to germinate, under sterile conditions. I sterilise the seeds in sulphuric acid at 1% concentration then sterilise  them in a  10% solution of household bleach.  And then they are ready to be sown on the media.   

[Johan K.]

Dactylorhiza alpestris

[Steve Garvie]

The last Ophrys to flower here.
Three late flowering plants that I wrongly labelled as Ophrys apifera. At least two of them are probably forms of Ophrys cornuta.

[SteveC2]

Think you might need to check your labels or your typing Steve.  Don't think any of those are apifera.  Scolopax maybe?

[Steve Garvie]

Thanks Steve.
I bought them 2 years ago -supposedly as lab-raised apifera from northern Balkan (Bulgarian seed). This is the first time they have flowered. To me at least two of them look like cornuta. All of my other Ophrys flowered at least 6w earlier and given this later flowering I didn't question the label. Perhaps I need to check my plants more carefully -and not down the barrel of a lens! 

[ian mcdonald]

Variations of bee orchid flowers in the wild img. 3688. Also img. 017.

[SteveC2]

I am with you on that Steve, it was only my lumper self which said scolopax.  This time last year my two cornuta were at Chelsea so they can be late flowering, but long since finished this year.