Terrestrial orchids 2021

[Tristan_He]

Love the spider orchids Gail!

My Ophrys have finished for the year now and I have bee doing some repotting and vegetative propagation (though I may have missed the boat a bit here). Nevertheless some good tubers. Here is O. helenae:



...and here is Orchis italica.

[Gail]

Early purple orchid

[mellifera]

The purple is perfect, Gail
Also the spottet leaves are nice.
Here T. glaucophylla is flowering.
The blue is very special!

[Anders]

A few pictures from the last weeks

Galearis (Neolindleya) camtschatica
Cypripedium Sabine gx
Ophrys apifera

[Anders]

…and some from today.

Cypripedium flavum
Pogonia ophioglossoides
Cypripedium Ulla Silkens gx

[Anders]

A remake of Dactylorhiza Foliorella gx (foliosa x purpurella). There is a bit of color variation, but some seedlings have a very deep intense purple color. 

Anders

[Anders]

Dactylorhiza iberica is also in full flower and quite different from other Dactylorhiza. It is supposed to spread by stolons, so I have pollinated it with pollinia from Foliorella gx and praetermissa to see if I can introduce this trait in hybrids that are easier to grow.

Anders

[Tristan_He]

Very nice Anders, you have an impressive collection!

Here is my Dactylorhiza 'Tizzy Hornell' which is a large and vigorous plant with a colour that really should come with a health warning (or at least wear sunglasses!)

[ashley]

Epipactis veratrifolia x thunbergii

[Roma]

I am a bit late posting my Dactylorhyza purpurella pics but here are a few.  D. purpurella seeds around usually into pots in the frame.  I rescue them when repotting and pot them separately.  I was most surprised last year when a pure white one appeared in a pot with 2 of usual purple colour. It looks to me like pure purpurella but I am not very good at noticing subtle differences.  It is still alive and flowered again this year. There are colonies of Dactylorhyza maculata not far away but I have never found a pure white one.



A vigorous D. purpurella growing in a very weedy path



Dactylorhyza purpurella has also escaped from my garden and is spreading in my ponies' field in a very wet spot.  It is a native but I am not sure where the nearest natural colony is.  I have not seen it growing locally.

[Yann]

Dactylorhiza spread everywhere it's wet, once i visited a friends after exploring a bog, 2 years after he sent me photos of "strange leaves". It was D. praetermissa, surely from seeds sticked under my shoes.

[fermi de Sousa]

On the roadside near Bendigo, Central Victoria:
1) Glossodia major
2) Diuris chryseopsis
More pics on the Southern Hemisphere Thread,
cheers
fermi

[mellifera]

Nice photos.

Are these orchids also in cultivation?

Here Chiloglottis seminuda is flowering

[fermi de Sousa]

Are these orchids also in cultivation?

Hi mellifera,
I think they are cultivated but I don't have much luck with terrestrial orchids so haven't grown them.
There are many growers in parts of Australia and there's a group (Australian Native Orchid Society) that specialises in them,
cheers
fermi

[Tristan_He]

Helmuth Beyrle (www.myorchids.de) has quite a few Australian species including some Diuris. All propagated from seed.