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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

field trips/findings

Albiflora forms of Dactylorhiza saccifera and cordigera

Posted on 1. September 2013

Though Dactylorhiza fuchsii is developing albiflora forms more often than other European orchids, especially in certain regions (Ireland, some German regions), ...

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In the bog of white orchids

Posted on 14. July 2012

Most orchid species don’t like acid boglands – but there are two rare exceptions: One is geographically widely distributed from Belgium to Northwest...

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