Any idea which fumitory this is @trisnorton.bsky.social ? .... Gran Canaria 1000m asl. yesterday 🤔

Ophrys bombyliflora (a first for me 💥) flowering today on Gran Canaria alongside Gennaria diphylla (and seeding Habenaria tridactylites) @1025m asl on a NW facing slope under pine & eucalyptus. Orchis canariensis in full bloom nearby. Happy days! 💜🇪🇸🌋 @ukorchids.bsky.social @orchidvinny.bsky.social

Gran Canaria was super green last week after the recent storms. Plenty of orchids in flower, but tad early for the best O.canariensis blooms. Surprise find, a patch of Ophrys bombyliflora rosettes - the only Ophrys in the Canaries and probably only found on Gran Canaria ... will go back! 💜🌋🇪🇸

Hi John - any thoughts on what spp this is? ... Gran Canaria this week. @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social

El Teide at sunset from Gran Canaria 🧡🌋 Gennaria diphylla by the thousand in the remnants of the laurisilva forest at 500-800m asl. 25/1/2026 🧡🇪🇸 @ukorchids.bsky.social @orchidvinny.bsky.social

Orchis canariensis just starting to flower on Gran Canaria today at 950m asl. Habenaria tridactylites a plenty, but going over, and a surprise Monarch butterfly 😃 💜🇪🇸 24/1/2026. @orchidvinny.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

Stunning botany on Tenerife over the last couple of days 🤍🌋

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Finally tried out my new camera in Tenerife. 6/12/2025. Himantoglossum metlesicsianium ... OM-D E-M1 Mark II + M.Zuiko 60 mm f/2.8. Camera stacked images. Thanks to ChatGpt for helping with set up 😃

The Tenerife Giant Orchid, Himantoglossum metlesicsianium, at 1100m asl. in the Corona Forrestal, Tenerife 😃💜🌋 6-12-2025. Especially for Messrs Cole and Blood ... @ukorchids.bsky.social @orchidvinny.bsky.social

Lots of fresh Habenaria tridactylites at 1050m above Guimar on Tenerife yesterday 4-12-2025; Gennaria diphylla approaching flowering & Neotinea maculata rosettes appearing. Amazing site, somewhat treacherous. 💜🌋

El Teide from San Sebastian de La Gomera 💜🌋

Habenaria tridactylites flowering in an unreachable spot at 2998ft asl on La Gomera today 😃 @orchidvinny.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

A Green-winged orchid rosette (Anacamptis morio) survives on what's left of Dawlish Warren Point after the autumn storms. 8/11/2025

Goodyera macrophylla in the laurissilva forest of NW Madeira. 9/10/2025 😃

Super happy to find more Goodyera macrophylla today, 9/10/2025, @1000m in the laurissilva forest of NW Madeira 🤍🇵🇹

Lots of Neotinea maculata typically under tree heather (Erica arborea) @1800m on Pico Ruivo, Madeira today 7/10/2025 🤍🇵🇹

Grilled limpets (lapas), probably Patella aspera or Patella candei to celebrate finding Goodyera macrophylla 😋🤍🇵🇹

Goodyera macrophylla @860m in the Parque Florestal do Fanal, Madeira today, 5/10/2025 🇵🇹 😃

A splendid combo ...Autumn squill (scilla autumnalis) and Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus) at Start Point today 9-9-2025 😃

Fresh Autumn lady's-tresses (Spiranthes spiralis) appearing at Dawlish Warren following the recent rain 😃 @ukorchids.bsky.social

A few Autumn Lady's-tresses on the Dorset Way verges today, 10 days ago there were none. A nice end to Summer 😃 31-8-2025. @ukorchids.bsky.social @orchidvinny.bsky.social

How to seat a tubeless gravel tyre (possibly not much interest to the orchid world, but for the benefit of my cycling friends) 😃🚴

I'd say it is a pretty normal year for Autumn Lady's-tresses (Spiranthes spiralis) at Dawlish Warren NNR. Lots in full flower, many coming through and more to come 😃 19-8-2025. @warrenbirding.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social @rogercharding.bsky.social

Pretty sure this, past its sell by date, orchid is a Nigritella, maybe even N. lithopolitanica, the Kamik orchid, up at 1665m asl. on Velika Planina, Slovenia today 14-8-2025. Stunning place. Lovely alpine flowers. 💚 🇸🇮

Fresh flowering Broad-leaved helleborine (Epipactis helleborine), Herb paris (Paris quadrifolia) in fruit and some delightful Large-flowered hemp-nettle (Galeopsis speciosa) high up (1200m asl) under Beech in Velebit NP, Croatia, today 13-8-2025 💜🇭🇷

Violet helleborine (Epipactis purpurata) and the last floret of a Fragrant orchid, around 1100m asl near Crni Vrh in Velebit NP, Croatia today. Lots of orchids found, will be back in the Spring 😃 💜🇭🇷

Lovely Dark red and Broad leaved helleborines and their hybrid @1400-1600m asl. on the Vrsic pass, Slovenia today, 31-7-2025. 6500ft of climbing to see them mind you 🥵😃 💜🇸🇮

Good numbers of Bog orchids (Hammarbya paludosa) on Dartmoor today. 27-7-20205. @ukorchids.bsky.social

Ghostly encounter with an orchid, Epipogium aphyllum. 👻😃. Slovakia 17-7-2025

A wasp with a heavy head having feasted on Broad-leaved helleborines (Epipactis helleborine) (also known as the Wasp Orchid to the Dutch, I'm reliably informed) in Slovakia today. 18-7-2025 💜🇸🇰 @pjvanmaaren.bsky.social

Well...another new orchid species for me today. The holy grail. Epipogium aphyllum, the Ghost Orchid @1000m asl. in The Slovak Paradise National Park. Blimey, can't quite believe it. 🍻🍻 tonight 👻💜🇸🇰

Two new orchid species for me today 😃 Dwarf alpine orchid, Chamorchis alpina, and Globe-flowered orchid, Traunsteinera globosa, @2000m asl. 16-7-2025. High Tatras 💜🇸🇰

Another new species of orchid for me 😃, One-leaved bog orchid, Malaxis monophyllos. 1035m asl. High Tatras, Slovakia 15-7-2025 💜🇸🇰

A new orchid species for me 😃 Short-spurred fragrant-orchid, Gymnadenia odoratissima, attracting the insects last evening in The Slovak Paradise National Park. 14-7-2025 🩷💜🤍🇸🇰

A lovely mixed bag of orchids last Sunday, 6-7-2025, in Wiltshire. Great to see so many Frog orchids setting seed 😃 @ukorchids.bsky.social

A wasp nectaring on a Broad-leaved x Violet helleborine hybrid (Epipactis x schulzei). Wiltshire, 6-7-2025 @ukorchids.bsky.social

Good numbers of Marsh fragrant orchids (Gymnadenia densiflora) on the slumping cliffs near Blue Anchor, Somerset. 5-7-2025

Marsh Fragrant orchids (Gymnadenia densiflora) flowering at Braunton Burrows, 3-7-2025. 30-40 in bud/flower in one slack and encouragingly, starting to pop up in the margins of an area that was scraped a few years ago 😃👍 @ukorchids.bsky.social

Bog Orchids doing very well on Dartmoor today in a lovely wet flush @ 450m asl. 29 plants in one small part of the site - probably the most I've seen there 😃 28-6-2025 @ukorchids.bsky.social

High up on Dartmoor today the Heath Spotted orchids were the best I've seen them. Just love the variation in colour and form. No drought here! 28-6-2025 @ukorchids.bsky.social

A few Bee orchids hanging on in a shady roadside spot near Exeter with some lovely Pyramidal orchids, the majority of which were non-resupinate. On the opposite side of the road a growing population of nicely marked Southern Marsh Orchids 😃. 26-5-2025 @ukorchids.bsky.social

A drop of rain recently has brought some of the ant hills at Wylye Down NNR to life and a fresh wave of Chalk Fragrant orchids is coming through. No Frog orchids or hybrids though, yet. Also very satisfying to have got the Bastard ...Toadflax (Thesium humifusum) 😃 22-6-2025. @ukorchids.bsky.social

Marsh Fragrant orchids (Gymnadenia densiflora) now in full flower on the Jurassic Coast, Dorset. Having smelled all three fragrant orchid species over the last few days, my favourite is most definitely this one! 23-6-2025. @ukorchids.bsky.social

Bee beetle (Trichius fasciatus), Slovakia 20-6-2025. Saw one last year at Kenfig, Wales.

A crab spider waiting for lunch on the lip of a Lady's-slipper orchid (Cypripedium calceous).... a hybrid between Snoopy and Mutley springs to (my) mind 🤣. Slovakia. 20-6-2025

Bog Orchids & Heath Spotted Orchids in Hampshire today. 21-6-2025 @ukorchids.bsky.social

Coralroot orchids under Spruce at 950m asl. on North facing slope under Lomnický štít, High Tatras 🇸🇰 19-6-2025

Lady's Slipper Orchids and Red Helleborine at 1050m asl. near Liptovská Anna, Slovakia. 20-6-2025 💛💜🇸🇰

Lady's Slipper Orchids 🇸🇰 20-6-2025 💥