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...
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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...
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...
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...
Ophrys bertolonii “albiflora”
With its deeply pink to purple colours in the sepals and petals and a deeply brown labellum, Ophrys bertolonii is one of the most intensely coloured Ophrys spec...