Orchid conference in Neumuehl: Rescue mission in Switzerland
An unusual rescue mission in the canton Zurich was subject of the 2018 orchids conference in Kehl-Neumuehl, Germany. In this Swiss region, nutrient-poor grassla...
Tag: Nigritella
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...
Colour plays with Nigritella rhellicani
In July, the dark red heads of Nigritella rhellicani (syn: Nigritella nigra ssp. rhellicani) are covering many alpine meadows. In some rare places, the flowers ...
Nigritella bicolor – a new, but well known species
A new species description offers the chance to clarify open questions while studying the alpine Nigritella flora: In the latest edition of the Journal of Europe...
Exhibition in Frankfurt demonstrates color in nature
“The palette of colors in nature is almost infinite”, says the botanist Hilke Steinecke of the Palmengarten in Frankfurt. There, this palette is dis...
Nigritella hues of the Dolomite Alps
The Puflatsch Alm above the alpine village Siusi is famous for its colour varietes of Nigritella nigra ssp. rhellicani. As part of a field trip in the Dolomite ...
Overview on all the orchid genera
The shipment took more than a month but now the book has arrived from Cornell University Press in Ithaca, New York. It’s really intersting, the Illustrate...