It's green 2012

[mark smyth]

Out and about today I was brought to a site with 100s of Epipactis ?helleborine. Most were beyond their best but two stood out because they were different. They were fresh and the contents of the 'cups' was green.

Any ideas? I'll post photos shortly

[mark smyth]

Not the best photos. I should go back to take more.

These and D. fuschii are growing on an old hockey pitch that nature is reclaiming. The soil depth cant be much

[Neil]

Mark

They are Epipactis phyllanthes (Green-flowered Helleborine)

[mark smyth]

Thanks Neil

[mark smyth]

"very rare" says Orchids of Ireland.

This plant is growing on a site that was going to built on until the building resession. What now? Report the two plants, rescue them, collect seed ......?

[aldo]

Habenaria, green but unidentified, can someone help me?

[fredg]

That looks similar to Habaneria furcifera

Forked Habenaria is a terestrial orchid, 1-2 ft tall. Stem is sheathed in lower part, with 3-6, large, elliptic, acute, up to 15x5 cm leaves, crowded below the middle, above with appressed linear-lanceolate sheaths. Inflorescence is 12-30 cm long, narrowly cylindrical, rather lax. Bracts are lanceolate-long-pointed, as long as ovary. Flowers are green, sepals nearly equal in length, the dorsal one ovate-oblong, concave, 5 mm long, the lateral sepals falcately oblong, usually slightly longer. Petals are oblong, blunt, 5-6 x 2 mm. Lip is parted in three, with threadlike side-lobes, slightly diverging, 9 x 1 mm, longer than the straight, narrow- lanceshaped mid-lobe. Spur is slender, longer than ovary, 2 cm, narrow- cylindrical, prominently widened at base. Forked Habenaria is found in the region from NW Himalayas to Sikkim, Bhutan and Assam, at lower altitudes, 150-1800 m. Flowering: July-August.

[Anthony Darby]

Not the best photos. I should go back to take more.

These and D. fuschii are growing on an old hockey pitch that nature is reclaiming. The soil depth cant be much

I thought Epipactis phyllanthes was a much more slender plant with fewer flowers and this was more likely to be a green flowered E. helleborine?

[mark smyth]

Anthony that's what I saw when I Googled it - slender and flowers well spaced

[Anthony Darby]

Your plants are certainly very bright green, but given the colony was E. helleborine, I would suspect these are just a bright green form. When you see "found in only three places" you suspect this isn't one of them.

[aldo]

That looks similar to Habaneria furcifera

Thank you, Fred

[aldo]

Greenorchid at the Thiene orchid show

[daveyp1970]

Nice Catasetum Aldo there are number of green sp,it might even be a hybrid.