JeanLux
Well-Known Member
I got in contact with Brice, a young french man, studying biology in Paris, through Slippertalk some time ago 
!!!!
We met again here on this thursday morning, because Brice was on holidays for a week, home in Lorraine, and we had agreed to visit some orchid related site! As Montenach is a village near the 3-border frontier France-Germany-Luxembourg, and has for the region a rather unique abundance of local orchids to be found on some of the slopes around, we decided to go there, even if it was still very early in the year to see a large part of the present species in bloom!
So, most of the species were still not showing up at all, or were in very low foliage, or in early spikes, but we found a relatively huge number of plants belonging to one/ a few species! We could identify some, but the most visible, Orchis maculata?, had such variations in foliage and inflorescence, that, even with our orchid bucklets, we were not comfortable for identification !
Maybe, some of you can give us more details!
here some pics:
(Liparis ovata) spiking, no it is Listera ovata, thanks Rob!:
an orchid purpurea ready to start its blooms' explosion!
one of the few purpureas already showing some bloom:
A view of the first in bloom:
And here some pics of what we found labelled as orchis maculata, but where we were not sure at all, if all of them were maculta, or variants of this species, oe simply diff. species, esp. because of the differences in compactness of blooms, colors of the stems, and, above all, the differences we met for the foliage: some green, others mottled! !
the whole plant, for foliage:
green foliage!
bloom closer-up:
buds:
with primula:
Brice, shooting pics, shown in the next post:
Jean
!!!!We met again here on this thursday morning, because Brice was on holidays for a week, home in Lorraine, and we had agreed to visit some orchid related site! As Montenach is a village near the 3-border frontier France-Germany-Luxembourg, and has for the region a rather unique abundance of local orchids to be found on some of the slopes around, we decided to go there, even if it was still very early in the year to see a large part of the present species in bloom!
So, most of the species were still not showing up at all, or were in very low foliage, or in early spikes, but we found a relatively huge number of plants belonging to one/ a few species! We could identify some, but the most visible, Orchis maculata?, had such variations in foliage and inflorescence, that, even with our orchid bucklets, we were not comfortable for identification
!Maybe, some of you can give us more details!
here some pics:
(Liparis ovata) spiking, no it is Listera ovata, thanks Rob!:
an orchid purpurea ready to start its blooms' explosion!
one of the few purpureas already showing some bloom:
A view of the first in bloom:
And here some pics of what we found labelled as orchis maculata, but where we were not sure at all, if all of them were maculta, or variants of this species, oe simply diff. species, esp. because of the differences in compactness of blooms, colors of the stems, and, above all, the differences we met for the foliage: some green, others mottled!
!
the whole plant, for foliage:
green foliage!
bloom closer-up:
buds:
with primula:
Brice, shooting pics, shown in the next post:
Jean
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