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...
Orchis purpurea f. albiflora in Eastern Hesse
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...
Albiflora orchids on Gotland
There have been a couple of botanical travel reports from Gotland with findings of white-flowered orchids, especially of Dactylorhiza incarnata. This year, I...
Albiflora couple in the valley of Kinzig
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...
Albiflora abundance on Sardinia
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...
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...
Orchis olbiensis – Andalusian chromatics
Orchis olbiensis has a colourful and a light variety, as it is stated by Kretzschmar/Eccarius/Dietrich in “Die Orchideengattungen Anacamptis, Orchis, Neot...
Albiflora forms of Orchis in Austria
Two white flowered forms of Orchis are presented by Norbert Griebl in the latest edition of “Berichte aus den Arbeitskreisen Heimische Orchideen” (2...
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...