Orchis pauciflora with reduced carotenoid pigments
Among a population of about one thousand Orchis pauciflora in Southern Croatia, Bariša Ilić from Metković found 8 plants with almost white flowers. Their bright...
Category: field trips
Comeback for the white Orchis militaris
In 2006, I first observed a white-flowered Orchis militaris in a grassland area near Frankfurt. It re-appeared in five following years. Last time I have seen it...
Colony of Orchis quadripunctata f. albiflora
Orchis quadripunctata is a more than common species in mid Dalmatia. For more than ten years, Robert Crnković is looking for white, albiflora examples among num...
Albiflora spring in Dalmatia
Time and again, you can see the strong inflorescences of Himantoglossum robertianum in its hypochrome form. Jadranka Gubaš has now detected five of those plants...
Albiflora forms on Alpine meadows
A highlight of the field trip to the Alpine region of Eastern Tyrol is a plant which on first sight appears as a stronger Pseudorchis albida. There are many of ...
Lady’s Slipper without Chrysanthemin
It’s very rarely that the Lady’s Slipper orchid (Cypripedium calceolus) is flowering without the brown-red color in sepals and petals. As with other...
Orchis purpurea f. albiflora in Eastern Hesse
Four decades after founding the Arbeitskreises Heimische Orchideen (AHO) Hessen (working group of native orchids Hesse) (on 3.3.1979), a conference in Sontra lo...
Albiflora orchids on Gotland
There have been a couple of botanical travel reports from Gotland with findings of white-flowered orchids, especially of Dactylorhiza incarnata. This year, I...
Albiflora couple in the valley of Kinzig
With Orchis mascula, the albiflora forms are not rare. But in many cases the pattern of violet points is preserved in the lips – even if the production of...
The dynamics of evolution on the Dactylorhiza meadow
Seven years after my first observations on a meadow in the valley of the small river Bieber in the northern region of the Spessart mountains I visit this specia...