Dactylorhiza pythagorae f. albiflora
Foto: Kiros Kokkas This orchid is only known from the Aeagean island of Samos. It is not variable, but in contrary unusually homogeneous, writes Wolfgang Eccari...
Category: findings
starting a new flowering season
In the Mediterranean, the new season is already in full blossom. From the Croatian island of Čiovo Robert Crnković sent me this photo of a Himantoglossum robert...
Hypochrome forms of Neottia nidus-avis
In a contribution for the Journal of European Orchids (Journal Europäischer Orchideen, vol. 50, 2-4, 2018, p. 221-226), Leslie Lewis presents an overview of the...
Gymnadenia conopsea x Nigritella rhellicani with white flowers
In the latest edition of the Berichte aus den Arbeitskreisen Heimische Orchideen (Jg 34, Heft 2, 2017, S.123-145), Norbert Griebl presents the diversity of alpi...
Orchids “adapt” to colour preferences of pollinators
This hypothesis has been formulated by Hannes Paulus in a contribution for the latest edition of the Journal Europäischer Orchideen (Hannes F. Paulus: Zur Bestä...
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...
Albiflora greeting from Lithuania
Before the end of the year I received special finding reports from Lithuania: Bernd Gliwa has found a white-flowered Dactylorhiza traunsteineri, only once in 20...
orchids conference in Sundheim 2: Floral photosynthesis
Why are Ophrys flowers with a defect in pigment production yellowish-greenish and not white as it’s the case with Orchis, Dactylorhiza or other genera? I&...
Flowering Season 2015 starts with Anacamptis collina
The first albiflora contribution of this spring is coming from Werner Hahn who has found and photographed this impressive Anacamptis collina in the Southern Spa...
new year greetings from Croatian island Korčula
Starting into 2015 I received a nice mail from Mirjana and Nebojša Jeričević living on the Dalmatian island of Korčula. They sent me photos of albiflora forms o...