Pterostylis curta

[bench72]

1. Do not leave plants on the floor when there are puppies running around!

there were seven spikes but as you can see, they are all, bar one, now bent!!!


2. here's a close-up

here you can see that this species open the flower more as oposed to previously posted Pterostylis nutans.

3. now for an even closer look!

one way to distinguish this particular species is the way the lip (that brownish bit in the middle) is twisted!

cheers
tim

 

[Rick]

Kind of like an evil version of Jack in the Pulpit:evil:

How big is that flower?

 

[Heather]

Very cool plant.

Very bad puppies.

 

[Marco]

Those flowers are great! Thanks Tim

 

[Jon in SW Ohio]

Pterostylis AND variegated?!? Time to book an Aussie vacation!

Jon
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[bench72]

Rick, the second pic is pretty much the size of the flowers. This and another species Ptst baptistii has the largest flowers in the group.

 

[Jmoney]

very interesting blooms!

 

[Greenpaph]

Super! I love the photos!

thanks

 

[DavidM]

Interesting plant, are they all variegated?

 

[bench72]

David, this is the one and only variegated form of Pterostylis that i have seen... this particular clone though gets around... there are a number of people in my species society that have plants...

cheers
tim

 

[DavidM]

David, this is the one and only variegated form of Pterostylis that i have seen... this particular clone though gets around... there are a number of people in my species society that have plants...

cheers
tim

Thank you for the reply, that is very nice, I love variegated plants...another thing that Gideon has got me hooked on.

Is there a vendour selling this particular clone? My wife has to go to Oz on bussiness...maybe she can find a flask for me...

 

[Gideon]

Very nice indeed, love the variegation