some beauties just flowering

[Tony Willis]

Fred that is lovely,so white it seems to glisten

[goofy]

hey,
some of the more rare species opened the flowers...........

Cypripedium reginae alba


Cypripedium reginae alba, closeup


Dactylorhiza iberica


Dactylorhiza iberica, closeup


enjoy

[Hristo]

Dieter, super plants, I love the D.iberica, great lip markings.
Here;
Gymnadenia conopsea var. densiflora 'alba'

[goofy]

hey Chris,
nice conopsea densiflora albas

my conopsea albas hopefully will flower soon..........
cheers

[Tony Willis]

Dieter and Chris both very nice plants.Here are three Orchis coriophora

[Hristo]

Again, very tidy specimens Tony,I like the lax flowered form best I think.
You might enjoy this one,I can't actually find an 'x' name for this one.
Orchis laxiflora x coriophoraHas the form of laxiflora but the darker colouring and lip markings of coriophora. I live in hope that this hasn't been seen before......

[Graham Catlow]

Hi

Goofy I'm not sure why you doubt your Dactylorhiza foliosa as it looks just like mine. I suppose mine could be wrongly named though.
Your Cypripedium reginae alba is stunning. I really like the pure white Cyps. we have been seeing on the forum.

Some of my Dacts. from today.

Firstly two Dact. foliosa
Then one I think is Dact. majalis. I have included a couple of close ups, the second taken with the camera flash on, and leaves. So if someone would like to hazzard a guess I would appreciate it. It grows to approximately 50cm tall.

Graham

[goofy]

hello Graham,
I just doubt, because aof comparing "MY" plant with some pics in the web and in my books.

nevertheless it might be a "selectect" form of foliosa
as discussed befor the form "Alex Duguid"

otherwise there are many plants of hybrid origin "on the market" and it also might be an interresting plant of hybrid origin, which was sold "as" foliosa.

fascinating the "dark spotted" leaves

cheers

[Neil]

Dieter if you bought it from Jeff at Laneside, he does sell a selected clone of D foliosa, which is darker than the true one.

[goofy]

hello Neil,
my pic shows that "dark" cultivar. but it is not foliosa.
also the shape of leaves in not foliosa...............
whatever it is, it might be of hybrid origin.

there are not so many of "true" foliosa pics to find in the web,
but one can be seen on this page:
http://www.ulmer.de/QUlEPTE3NjcwNCZNSUQ9NTQ5OTU.html

click on the left pic to enlarge and enjoy
THIS is true foliosa for me............,
NO "lines" in the labellum.
I have one of this kind, but not yet flowering.

cheers

[christian pfalz]

hi, epipactis hybrid "sabine"

epipactis gigantea

cheers
chris

[Anthony Darby]

MIne is flowering now too!

[mark smyth]

Cruickshanks dark leaf is now in full flower

[mark smyth]

and a plant that has seeded in to the middle of a large group of Agapanthus

[Darren]

This came to me as Satyrium membranaceum. It is a South African winter grower and the leaves went dormant about a month ago so it looks a bit odd being in full flower and I don't know if I should water it or not. I'll let you know if I get it wrong! I know it has made a new tuber because it is half way out of a drainage hole in the pot and therefore somewhat constricted around the middle

UPDATE: Just looked in Stewart et al "Wild Orchids of Southern Africa" and I reckon it is actually S.longicolle.