Earlier in the week, this being #orchid season, the first Bee Orchid I've seen this year. The little yellow pollinia shows it had not yet been visited by a pollinator. It was close to an impressively beefy Pyramidal, near Oxford. Quite a lot of Pyramidals in highway verges etc at the moment
@wildorchids
Viele heimische #orchideen kommen auch in einer weißen Form vor, ähnlich dem Albino bei Menschen.
Hier gezeigt das Kleine Knabenkraut, lat. Anacamptis morio var. albiflora.
Nur wenige Exemplare auf dieser Orchideenwiese zeigten eine farbliche Abweichung. #Naturbeobachtung#orchids#flowersofmastodon
Purple midge orchid (Corunastylis ostrina/Genoplesium ostrinum) near Braidwood, NSW. Flowers are very small - little finger here for scale! Midge orchid ID can be tricky in the field as the upper surface of the labellum is usually not visible without collection, dissection and magnification.
Hello friends, I hope you're all having a good day. We went to the 2024 Orchid Show at the MO Botanical Garden today, and I want to share some of the pictures I took. The lighting could have been better, but I have a whole month to go back a few more times.
Brief descriptions and scientific names in alt text.