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Wildflower, Blossom and Fungi Photographs

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LazyDaisy Jun 2024 8:54pm, 6 Jun 2024 40,211 posts	Quote Pin LazyDaisy Hurrah! One of the two bee orchids I've had in my wild garden for the last couple of years has reappeared! No sign of the other one - I suspect it's been too wet. Ridiculously pleased - and all I've had to do to get this and the orchids in my post above, was stop mowing the grass
LazyDaisy Jun 2024 12:29pm, 8 Jun 2024 40,218 posts	Quote Pin LazyDaisy Lovely bright Pyramid Orchid on my dog walk this morning.
Chrisity Jun 2024 9:42am, 9 Jun 2024 24,289 posts	Quote Pin Chrisity Nice orchids LazyDaisy Whenever I see one I'm reminded of a student I taught in the early 80's, an Armenian about 22 years old. A few years after he left I saw his picture in the Sunday Times colour supplement, he had been arrested for smuggling orchids. He even has one named after him, but is now a UFO expert. armeniapedia.org
Winniefree Jun 2024 3:12pm, 18 Jun 2024 7,512 posts	Quote Pin Winniefree Paging LazyDaisy ! We can’t decide if this is a common spotted or a heath spotted orchid. Any idea?
Chrisull Jun 2024 3:27pm, 18 Jun 2024 21,660 posts	Quote Pin Chrisull Think that's a heath. The common ones are more triangular petals, heaths are a little smaller with more circular petals. We only get heath spotteds in Cornwall, and when I saw a common spotted for the first time in the wild up north, it seemed not massively, but yet obviously different.
Winniefree Jun 2024 3:31pm, 18 Jun 2024 7,514 posts	Quote Pin Winniefree Ah thanks Chris, this was quite small, on the Pembrokeshire coastal path.
jacdaw Jun 2024 3:39pm, 18 Jun 2024 4,481 posts	Quote Pin jacdaw My money is on heath, too, but they do hybridise!
Chrisull Jun 2024 3:44pm, 18 Jun 2024 21,661 posts	Quote Pin Chrisull Yes hard enough to identify without the bloomin' things crossbreeding!
NordRunner Jun 2024 3:46pm, 18 Jun 2024 4,341 posts	Quote Pin NordRunner Yeah, the hybrids are a bit of a mishmash - they call them Heath Robinson orchids.
LazyDaisy Jun 2024 4:05pm, 18 Jun 2024 40,270 posts	Quote Pin LazyDaisy I think I agree with Heath. Chris gives useful summary of the distinction.