Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Specific Families and Genera => Pleione and Orchidaceae => Topic started by: fredg on May 29, 2012, 05:39:24 PM
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A fresh start to that ever popular topic
IT'S GREEN
1 & 2 First, one from a few weeks ago Cypripedium henryi
3 & 4 Neottia ovata just beginning to flower, now we all know the flowers look like little green men but it was a surprise to see this one had buttons on the front :o
3 Liparis kumokiri
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Neottia ovata just beginning to flower, now we all know the flowers look like little green men but it was a surprise to see this one had buttons on the front :o
I think it's rather charming to see a gentleman more formally attired... with a proper complement of buttons on his suit like these little green chaps. :) 8)
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A fresh start to that ever popular topic
IT'S GREEN
1 & 2 First, one from a few weeks ago Cypripedium henryi
3 & 4 Neottia ovata just beginning to flower, now we all know the flowers look like little green men but it was a surprise to see this one had buttons on the front :o
3 Liparis kumokiri
See ..... its happened again!! ;D ;D
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Fred
I really feel the liparis is cheating a little but still very nice to see.
Here is one to really get the blood pounding
Platanthera sparsiflora,it is about 12 cms tall- the name says it all
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Tony now you've done it,Fred's head will explode ;D
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Here is one to really get the blood pounding
Platanthera sparsiflora,it is about 12 cms tall- the name says it all
Wow! 8)
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B A N G !
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Oh dear...... I knew we should have put a plastic bag over our screens.... this will take ages to clear up...... :P
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;D ;D ;D
Some amazing / beautiful / fascinating orchids being shown. :o :o
I've never seen most of them before anywhere, Thanks to all, 8) 8) 8)
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Fred
I really feel the liparis is cheating a little but still very nice to see.
Not sure where the problem is on the Liparis Tony.
It's definitely GREEN
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Not really green, more of a pale chartreuse. ;D ;D ;D
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Not only green but totally insignificant
Platanthera stricta
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For such a magnificent specimen, you could at least have cleaned up the pot a bit before photographing it. ;)
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For such a magnificent specimen, you could at least have cleaned up the pot a bit before photographing it. ;)
Peter I agree but Mrs W. refuses to wash the pots and women can be quite obstinate at times so nothing I can do about it.
In any case as a photographer I thought you would enjoy the contrasting greens.
Here is a second one flowering today and looking particularly attractive.
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It's a close call, but I think I prefer the first one - bigger flowers :D
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Habenaria limprichtii.
Rather inconveniently, the central spike is the shortest. But it still got a bronze rosette at yesterday's Thames Valley Orchid Society meeting. ;D ;D ;D
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Yeah, that is good and green 8)
The close-up of the flowers is super - what an intricate litttle "face"
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Don't get too close Maggi, it looks like it's about to grab something........
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very nice Maren
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Habenaria limprichtii.
Rather inconveniently, the central spike is the shortest. But it still got a bronze rosette at yesterday's Thames Valley Orchid Society meeting. ;D ;D ;D
how do you grow it?
because mine don't seems to want make flower >:( !
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a word of warning - when trying to photograph Epipactis DONT try to bend the stem to get a better photo. I just snapped one off because I didnt realise how rigid they are
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Hi Sam,
I was pleasantly surprised that this pot flowered. I have three more, one looks empty and the other two only have leaves.
A friend suggested that I should pollinate it, so I dutifully took it to Ian B. as I could see neither pollinia nor stamen to do the deed. Have a look at the picture, none of the flowers appear to have any sexy bits ??? ??? ??? ::) ::) ::)
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Platanthera clavellata, twice as tall and four months later than the other clone ::)
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Fred
a nice form ,does seem late but it is a strange season
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Tony
This happens every season, the two clones just do not act like the same species. ::)
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This is my best close up of Platanthera clavellata to date.
The Araneus diadematus spiderling that has taken up residence on the plant is about the size of a pinhead yet beautifully marked. ;D
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Fantastic pictures Fred. :o 8)
"This is my best close up of Platanthera clavellata to date." - I see its self pollinating. How strange with such a large spur :o.
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Marvellous pictures. Something to remind us to take the time to stop and look closely at our plant treasures. :) :)
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I see its self pollinating. How strange with such a large spur
Have you also noted that there is at least one naturally occuring hybrid Ron?
A cross with Platanthera blephariglottis which indicates an insect pollinator as well as self pollination :D
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I did see that Fred, and am glad you've highlighted it. Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised given the pollination of others in this Genus. Its described nicely here,
http://www.botany.wisc.edu/orchids/clavellata.html (http://www.botany.wisc.edu/orchids/clavellata.html)
I suppose what is surprising somewhat is that the insect hasn't been observed yet given the amount of study that seems to have gone into this Genus. What isn't clear from this report is how common the hybrid, P X vossii, is.
Seems ( from the same source ) that the 'dual pollinating methods' is better documented in P. hyperborea. Bumblebees and moths are cited as well as autogamous plants.
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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
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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
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Mark
They are Epipactis phyllanthes (Green-flowered Helleborine)
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Thanks Neil
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"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 ......?
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(http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm24/2111aldo/P7090434-1.jpg)
Habenaria, green but unidentified, can someone help me?
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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.
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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?
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Anthony that's what I saw when I Googled it - slender and flowers well spaced
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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.
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That looks similar to Habaneria furcifera
Thank you, Fred
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Greenorchid at the Thiene orchid show
(http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm24/2111aldo/396485_3488101732613_1844448358_n.jpg)
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Nice Catasetum Aldo there are number of green sp,it might even be a hybrid.