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SueG

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Re: Orchids spring 2008
« Reply #15 on: March 26, 2008, 12:47:58 PM »
It does seem a rather over the top reaction - but perhaps he worked for a floristry company and realised they weren't going to be the next big thing for bouquets. . . .
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Re: Orchids spring 2008
« Reply #16 on: April 07, 2008, 10:32:21 PM »
Here's Ophrys tenthredinifera flowering in the greenhouse.
« Last Edit: April 08, 2008, 01:24:17 PM by Maggi Young »
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Re: Orchids spring 2008
« Reply #17 on: April 07, 2008, 10:59:49 PM »
Beautiful, Anthony!  :)
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Re: Orchids spring 2008
« Reply #18 on: April 08, 2008, 10:42:03 AM »
Ooops 8) too big 8) ::)
Anthony, you pest! I have edited your pix down for you. M
« Last Edit: April 08, 2008, 01:24:57 PM by Maggi Young »
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Re: Orchids spring 2008
« Reply #19 on: April 08, 2008, 11:06:33 AM »
Anthony ,

I have found before some minutes this thread - could it be that your plant of Anacamptis papilionacea is the same what I have found in Andros ?
Please look here : http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1603.msg39861#msg39861
(pic Nr. 15)
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Re: Orchids spring 2008
« Reply #20 on: April 12, 2008, 10:37:52 PM »
Here's a couple more: Ophrys cretica and O. iricolor.
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Re: Orchids spring 2008
« Reply #21 on: April 12, 2008, 10:44:03 PM »
Anthony,

Love that labellum on the iricolor.  So "plush". ;D
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Re: Orchids spring 2008
« Reply #22 on: April 15, 2008, 05:32:26 PM »
four in flower at the moment.
I think the second is laxiflora but I not sure. The third ,provincialis has only produced a spike with two flowers this year.
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Re: Orchids spring 2008
« Reply #23 on: April 15, 2008, 09:01:30 PM »
Here's another pic of Ophrys cretica and Ophrys episcopalis (Large-flowered or Bishop's Ophrys) plis a series of pics showing collecting the pollinia and then holding it against the stigma and then pulling it away. There was quite a force needed as the pollinia was well stuck.
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Re: Orchids spring 2008
« Reply #24 on: April 15, 2008, 09:04:38 PM »
Anthony I have done that.Did you do it for a reason or were you like me just being childish?
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Re: Orchids spring 2008
« Reply #25 on: April 15, 2008, 09:10:19 PM »
I think you should explain before I make a response. When it comes to orchids I don't do childish! :-\

Here's a hybrid apifera X tenthredinifera. This one is tiny.
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Anthony Darby, Auckland, New Zealand.
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Re: Orchids spring 2008
« Reply #26 on: April 15, 2008, 09:19:56 PM »
Touchy! I do it just to pretend to be a bee,perhaps I am going senile.I have never managed a deliberate germination  from sowing the seeds but I find they appear sporadically in odd pots of other plants. At the moment I have a lutea in flower in a pot of cyclamen graecum.

I have dactylorhiza coming up in every nook and cranny in the garden
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Re: Orchids spring 2008
« Reply #27 on: April 15, 2008, 09:30:40 PM »
Perhaps you should think first? I leave childish behaviour to those idiots that manage to close every trap in the display of Venus Flytraps in garden centres. For your information I do plan to sow the seeds aseptically and also to send seed to other enthusiasts who have experience in this field, after all, this is the only way to obtain these rarities. They rarely reproduce asexually. 
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Anthony Darby, Auckland, New Zealand.
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Re: Orchids spring 2008
« Reply #28 on: April 15, 2008, 09:38:03 PM »
Sorry
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Re: Orchids spring 2008
« Reply #29 on: April 15, 2008, 10:12:40 PM »
Accepted.
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