Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Specific Families and Genera => Pleione and Orchidaceae => Topic started by: fredg on August 11, 2011, 07:55:54 PM
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Following on from the rave reviews of my little green thingies :-
..........when you compare it to the little green things that Fred G posted a month or two back it's positively fabulous.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
I thought I'd post a little white thingy.
Goodyera pubescens, the Rattlesnake Plantain, must be one of the most commonly found orchids native to eastern North America. The attractive variegated leaves are evergreen. It grows as a creeping terrestrial or occasionally epipetric plant that divides on the ground surface and sends out short stolons.
The initially regarded nondescript white flowers do deserve close examination, they are much more interesting from the nearer perspective with its white hairy lace-like petals tipped with green.
Slightly acidic soils are prefered.
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Oh Fred,
that Goodyera is so lovely, and you photography really captures the luminescence of the petals and sepals. Such a little treasure. :) :)
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Fred
it is a lovely thing. I cannot see much difference between it and Goodyera oblongifolia from Washington and Oregon,also called the rattlesnake plantain.
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Definitely something to rave about this time Fred. ;D :D :D
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Such a little treasure. :) :)
Thank you Maren, the orchid is quite nice too ;D :P ::)
Here's a few more of the little fellow 15 days later.
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What a delight and long flowering.