some beauties just flowering

[mark smyth]

here are the photos. The brown bits are crisp. Onlt the outside leaves are affected. The flowering stems are OK

[mark smyth]

The first of Sam Edwards/dactman Dactylorhiza fuschii okellyi is open today  It's very pale pink but with dark pink spots. All my books say it can be pale pink but none mention spots on the flowers. The leaves have no spots

Does anyone have photos of okellyi in it's two forms?

[christian pfalz]

hi, dactylorhiza in flower...

cheers
chris

[Anthony Darby]

The dreaded black death Mark. Fungicide does halt it, but the plants lose their vigour and usually perish.

[fredg]

Dactylorhiza fuchsii
Sub-species: o'kellyi
IDENTIFICATION:
The leaves are slender and unspotted. The flower stem, up to 30cm tall, bears strongly scented white flowers in a square-topped spike. They are white or very faintly marked, while the lobes of the lip are rounded and almost equal.

Looking at this, if it's not white it's not o'kellyi.

[jomowi]

Agree, interestingly I lost large clumps of The Cruishank form of Dactylorhiza fuschii and D foliosa.  After a few years at least one Dac has appeared at each location, very healthy and the Cruikshank orchid has started to bulk up and has flowered for several years.  As far as I could tell there were no tubers left at any site.

[mark smyth]

Does Cruickshank form = Cruickshanks dark leaf?

[Slug Killer]

Dactylorhiza fuchsii
Sub-species: o'kellyi
IDENTIFICATION:
The leaves are slender and unspotted. The flower stem, up to 30cm tall, bears strongly scented white flowers in a square-topped spike. They are white or very faintly marked, while the lobes of the lip are rounded and almost equal.

Looking at this, if it's not white it's not o'kellyi.

Svante Malmgren says on his website that 90% are white and 10%pink.

http://www.lidaforsgarden.com/Orchids/dactylorhiza_eng.htm

Mark I would burn them in case they spread to the rest of your plants unless you can quarantine them far away.

David

[Maggi Young]

Does Cruickshank form = Cruickshanks dark leaf?

No, they are different..... one has a darker leaf..... there's often a clue........

[mark smyth]

:-P If mine is officially called Cruickshank form I need to relabel it

[Maggi Young]

That picture you just showed is of a much darker leaf form than the usual Cruickshank form.
I must admit that I don't think I am familiar with one purporting to be 'Cruickshanks dark leaf' but it may be a variation that has arisen somewhere from the original type. Roma may know more.....

[Maggi Young]

Mark I would burn them in case they spread to the rest of your plants unless you can quarantine them far away.

David

 You could try digging them up ; taking off any baby tubers that are already formed ;  quarantine them and hope for the best while burning the rest....
Be careful of handling any young tubers with the same "paws" as you touch the diseased ones...... risky business.....

[mark smyth]

yes I'll be careful. I'll keep them behind the green house

[fredg]

Dactylorhiza fuchsii
Sub-species: o'kellyi
IDENTIFICATION:
The leaves are slender and unspotted. The flower stem, up to 30cm tall, bears strongly scented white flowers in a square-topped spike. They are white or very faintly marked, while the lobes of the lip are rounded and almost equal.

Looking at this, if it's not white it's not o'kellyi.

Svante Malmgren says on his website that 90% are white and 10%pink.

http://www.lidaforsgarden.com/Orchids/dactylorhiza_eng.htm

Mark I would burn them in case they spread to the rest of your plants unless you can quarantine them far away.

David

What does the official description say?
I can't find it online.
Doesn't seem much point in having a white subspecies that is pink 

[Tony Willis]

I suppose it depends whose official description you are using!!

One of my books says'The D. maculata group offers a bewildering variety of types' but both of mine say o'kellyi is white but then so are a lot of others