on the trails of Ignaz Friedrich Tausch
On the occasion of a visit to Prague I looked up some specimens at the Charles University Herbarium (PRC). In order to help a friend, I searched for the holotyp...
Tag: Orchis
Albiflora studies on the Crimean Peninsula
Exploring the Crimean Pensinsula for orchids, species like Comperia comperiana, Steveniella satyrioides or Orchis punctulata are especially noteworthy. Albiflor...
Colour influences pollinator behaviour
Form and function of the flower organs are the main focus of the new fascinating book The Flower of the European Orchid by Jean Claessens and Jacques Kleynen. I...
Albiflora plants influence naïve pollinators
White-flowered orchid varieties are not just a “freak of nature” – they have quite obviously some biological function. A group of scientists i...
Albiflora studies in Ireland
The evolution of certain orchid species is far from being finished. The Burren, a region in County Clare at the Western coast of Ireland, illustrates this fact ...
birth announcement
It seems to be a good year for Orchis militaris – the meadows in biking distance from Frankfurt are full with violet inflorescences. And this time, in the...
Rare albiflora form of Orchis spitzelii
In OrchideenJournal 3/2009, Josefa and Richard Thoma describe how they have found two white flowering plants of Orchis spitzelii for the first time in a region ...
Orchids of the Rhoen region in Germany
A new publication presents a showcase of all the orchids to be found in the Rhoen Region of central Germany. In this book, the author and photographer Marco Klu...
Orchis militaris “albiflora”, budding
The new orchid season has begun, and the white flowering Orchis militaris in my neighborhood is already showing its buds. This year, there might be several R...