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Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 07 6:03 pm Post subject: After eighteen years of living here
Yesterday I found the first ever orchid on our land. It wont be a rare one I'm sure but where has it been hiding all this time ? Can anyone ID it for us ?

pricey

Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Posts: 6444

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 07 6:31 pm Post subject:
It might be a Den superbum, Its not in full flower yet is it?

pricey

Joined: 28 Feb 2005
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Posted: Mon Jul 09, 07 6:39 pm Post subject:
Just stuck it into Paint shop pro, and now it might be a Vasco Fuchs Amour? Bodger can you get a nice close picture of it in flower?

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 07 7:42 pm Post subject:
If the cows havent eat it, I'll try for a better picture tomorrow.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 07 8:23 pm Post subject:
Sorry Bodger, but that's a selfheal Prunella vulgaris. Not an orchid at all, but very pretty anyway.

gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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Posted: Mon Jul 09, 07 9:15 pm Post subject:

Jamanda wrote:

Sorry Bodger, but that's a selfheal Prunella vulgaris. Not an orchid at all, but very pretty anyway.

Do they grow in clumps ?
There are similar flowers here.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 07 9:23 pm Post subject:

gil wrote:

Jamanda wrote:

Sorry Bodger, but that's a selfheal Prunella vulgaris. Not an orchid at all, but very pretty anyway.

Do they grow in clumps ?
There are similar flowers here.

Yes, they are quite variable as to height, from 1 to 6 inches, and can be part of a lawn as well as standing high in a meadow like the one in Bodger's picture.

pricey

Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Posts: 6444

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 07 10:00 pm Post subject:
Well that explains why I couldn't ID it properly.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35058
Location: Devon

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 07 10:03 pm Post subject:

pricey wrote:

Well that explains why I couldn't ID it properly.

Why did you put into paint shop pro?

Mr O

Joined: 13 Feb 2005
Posts: 5512
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 07 10:03 pm Post subject:
It looks like a flower to me!

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 07 9:23 am Post subject:
What a shame. I rather like the idea of finding a Den Superbum in my field!

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 25795
Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 07 9:30 am Post subject:
If you have any milk thistles about then you have Silybums.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 07 9:34 am Post subject:

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 07 10:31 am Post subject:
Yep, definitely P. vulgaris. Isn't it pretty?

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 07 10:38 am Post subject:
I'm not disappointed at all, as you say its a pretty flower.

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