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Wildflower, Blossom and Fungi Photographs

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LazyDaisy Jun 2024 8:54pm, 6 Jun 2024 40,211 posts	0 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	0 LazyDaisy Lovely bright Pyramid Orchid on my dog walk this morning.
Chrisity Jun 2024 9:42am, 9 Jun 2024 24,289 posts	0 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	0 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	0 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	0 Winniefree Ah thanks Chris, this was quite small, on the Pembrokeshire coastal path.
jacdaw Jun 2024 3:39pm, 18 Jun 2024 4,481 posts	0 jacdaw My money is on heath, too, but they do hybridise!
Chrisull Jun 2024 3:44pm, 18 Jun 2024 21,661 posts	0 Chrisull Yes hard enough to identify without the bloomin' things crossbreeding!
NordRunner Jun 2024 3:46pm, 18 Jun 2024 4,341 posts	0 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	0 LazyDaisy I think I agree with Heath. Chris gives useful summary of the distinction.