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Lady’s Slipper without Chrysanthemin

Posted on 10. June 2019

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...

field trips

Orchis purpurea f. albiflora in Eastern Hesse

Posted on 1. June 2019

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...

field trips

Albiflora orchids on Gotland

Posted on 18. September 2018

There have been a couple of botanical travel reports from Gotland with findings of white-flowered orchids, especially of Dactylorhiza incarnata. This year, I...

field trips/findings

Albiflora couple in the valley of Kinzig

Posted on 6. August 2017

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...

field trips

The dynamics of evolution on the Dactylorhiza meadow

Posted on 8. June 2017

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...

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Albiflora abundance on Sardinia

Posted on 28. May 2017

There are two forms of albiflora mutations with orchids: the spontaneous growth of a white-flowered form as the consequence of a genetical defect in the process...

field trips

Ophrys pigmentation demonstrates bilateral symmetry

Posted on 10. December 2016

While travelling in Attica, Greece, Marco Klüber photographed this special Ophrys helenae which demonstrates the bilateral symmetry of orchid flowers. The left ...

field trips

white flowering in Engadine

Posted on 30. August 2014

Visiting this Eastern region of Switzerland, my special interest was focussed on Epipogium aphyllum, flowering in dark forests. “Aphyllum” refers to...

field trips

Orchis olbiensis – Andalusian chromatics

Posted on 11. June 2014

Orchis olbiensis has a colourful and a light variety, as it is stated by Kretzschmar/Eccarius/Dietrich in “Die Orchideengattungen Anacamptis, Orchis, Neot...

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a dream in green and white: Ophrys apifera in Basel

Posted on 6. June 2014

Finally, I’ve met her: The bee orchid at the Rhine port of Basel which has been described as Ophrys apifera var. basiliensis – in 2006, Paul Delforg...

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