Dactylorhizas 2012

[Brian Ellis]

 

[mark smyth]

This is probably a hybrid or a pure specie. Anyone know about lip shapes? It has spots but they are small and confined to the leaf bases

This plant originated in Jim Price's garden. Such an avid collector of plants

[Roma]

This Dactylorhyza appeared in my lawn a few years ago.  I only had D. purpurella with plain leaves in the garden and the earlier flowering  D. 'Cruickshank' with spotty leaves so suspect it may be a hybrid.  It is earlier than D. purpurella and D. maculata which occurs wild nearby. 

[Roma]

Another two.  The first came in a pot of Corydalis 'Craigton Blue'.
The second was growing in a field where my ponies were grazing 3 or 4 years ago.  I 'rescued' it after it  got eaten then trampled.

[mark smyth]

Fabulous spotty babies, Roma

Tell me more about D. 'Cruickshank'. Is this Cruickshank's dark leaf, with black leaves, or ex/via Cruickshank Botanic Garden and sold to me by Ian Christie

[Roma]

The Dactylorhyza I remember from the Cruickshank Garden has spotty leaves and pink flowers. It was thought to be a D. fuchsii hybrid  It grows early and the leaves often get damaged.  I am not sure if much survives in the garden.  My own patch lost vigour and was down to one feeble plant this year.  I don't know anything about the black leaved form apart from seeing pics on the Forum.  It did not originate in the Cruickshank Garden. 

[mark smyth]

Roma do  you have photos of 'Cruickshank'

[Maggi Young]

Mark, see the Bulb Log, 25 of 2003
http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/180603/log.html



 Dact. 'Cruickshank is the spotty-leaved pink form , lower centre of the pic.



 And this is the foliage in March

[Maggi Young]

I see Roma had a photo of a Dact. Cruickshank flower here :
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=2926.msg96293#msg96293

[Roma]

Thanks for that, Maggi.  I would never have found it and didn't remember I had mentioned the probable parentage of the spotty one before.

[mark smyth]

Thanks Maggi. My plant has leaves like Ian's. I must get a couple more from Ian C or whoever ..

I shall relabel my ex Cruickshank Botanic Garden plant as Cruickshank.

My plant suffereed badly in the wind last Saturday

[Tony Willis]

I have  Dactylorhiza Cruikshank which as is normal came from an impeccable source and it has leaves with just a few vague spots nothing like the leaves show here. It is light pink so I suppose it has something in common..

[mark smyth]

Any photos Tony?

Tony does your plant have silver on the leaves also?

[Tony Willis]

Any photos Tony?

Tony does your plant have silver on the leaves also?

it is too early to photgraph it in flower. It has slightly silver undersides but nothing like as much as many of my self sown very spotted ones.

[mark smyth]

This is one of the leaves from my Cruickshank