#orchids

Copper beard orchid (Calochilus campestris) near Mallacoota, VIC. Generally features some of the neatest facial hair of the local beard orchid species in East Gippsland. #Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #EastGippsland

What Pollinates The Florida Everglades Ghost Orchid? by @GrrlScientist@mstdn.science via #Medium #plants #orchids #GhostOrchid #Evolution #Taxonomy #video #SciComm #bioGraphic

Marsh sun orchid (Thelymitra longiloba) in Croajingolong NP, East Gippsland, VIC. This plant has slightly wider petals and sepals than more typical 'star-like' flowering forms. Only found the one still out at this location where it can be easy to miss this species when they flower amongst a range of similar blue sun orchids. #Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #EastGippsland #SunOrchids #Thelymitra

What’s this, a wild, native orchid has just popped up in my very cookie-cutter suburban yard? Mind officially blown. You can’t buy this. You can’t even move it, because wild orchids need a specific soil fungus as a partner, or they die. It was just waiting there in the soil until conditions were right. Who knows what else might be just waiting? #NativePlants #Orchids #WildlifeHabitat

"Rabbit Ears" is one of the most common sun orchids around Anglesea (VIC), and is now appearing in bloom. The flowers are about 25mm (~1") wide. These flowers feel much more gentle and composed than some of the downright garish spider orchids. #Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #Anglesea #WildFlowers #Thelymitra #SunOrchid

A beautiful little orchid that is very resilient and flowers on our street side, especially over the cooler part of the year. #orchids #aotearoa #doubtlessbay

Spotted sun orchid (Thelymitra ixioides) near Hyam's Beach, NSW - another coastal location where most of the flowers have no spots. Flowering had already pretty much finished here in mid-September with only a handful of plants still out. #Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #JervisBay #SunOrchids #Thelymitra

Time for another lovely orchid from Anglesea (VIC); this one from yesterday after a couple of warm, windy days. This is a Hare Orchid - Leptoceras menziesii - the first I've seen. Flowers are quite small at 15-20mm (1/2 to 3/4"). #Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #Anglesea #WildFlowers #Leptoceras

I cannot remember what species of orchid this is, but I can tell you that it was a challenge to take any kind of picture of it considering the orchid has flowers about as large as a grain of sand #photography #orchids

Caladenia hillmanii (purple-heart fingers) in open forest at Jervis Bay, NSW. Some variation in flower size, shape and colour at this location with some plants not having the distinctive maroon labellum side-lobes this species is known for. Generally regarded as a coastal species growing at altitudes of 0-200m but I've seen almost identical variations on a population of Caladenias in Monga NP at 700m altitude. #Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #JervisBay #Caladenia #BloomScrolling #WildFlowers

Leopard orchid smells amazing #orchids #flowers #bloomscroll #bloomscrolling #photography

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Two dwarf greenhoods (maybe having a conversation). #orchids

This is the same orchid bloom a few weeks apart. The one on the right, with more cream and blush tones, is how it looked when it first opened. The golden yellow one on the left is how it looks today. It also developed a wonderful sweet floral fragrance. #orchids #orchid

Idag var skogen full av Jungfru Marias nycklar. Har nog aldrig sett så många tidigare. #bloomscrolling #orchids #wildorchid

On the very windy Purbeck hilltop above the wood, a number of Early Purple-orchids struggling to grow vertically. #WildFlowerHour #wildflowers #bloomscrolling #orchids #wildOrchids

Purple hyacinth orchid (Dipodium punctatum) at Mystery Bay, NSW. Only one plant out and only just starting to flower in late February near the ocean. I usually see this species flowering nearby from late November - this is probably the latest flowering I have seen (although it can apparently flower into March at some locations). #Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #Dipodium

Sun orchid (Thelymitra) variations growing close together on the edge of Croajingolong National Park, VIC. Thelymitra ixioides (spotted sun orchid) are common nearby but in open grassland some smaller-flowering forms are maybe closer to the very similar Thelymitra juncifolia (rush-leaf sun orchid). #Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #EastGippsland #SunOrchids #Thelymitra