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    aesculapian snake Regent's canal

    https://www.jason-steel.co.uk/aesculapian-snakes.php
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    2019 UK Orchids

    It was there last year, too Steve, but in bud when we visited a week ago on Saturday.
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    2017 UK orchids

    Everyone a little timorous I am guessing!! I'd agree that there appear to be hybrids, if they are determined using the same criterion used for the species themselves.
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    2017 UK orchids

    Hi Doctor The Gait Barrows plants are in fine form at present, but most plants only have one flower on them because they are quite young still. There are a few yet to flower, but I would still go this weekend rather than next.
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    2017 UK orchids

    Hi Rich First two look like clear Greater, the last closest to Lesser. the two in between do look intermediate, which reading between the lines is what you were suggesting?
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    2017 UK orchids

    1st April wasn't it Mr L?
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    Marsh Orchid, UK.

    I'd agree with leptochila, if it is southern England, as far north as Yorkshire, it is a clear cut Southern Marsh
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    Kowa TSN823 zoom eyepiece

    Are any eyepieces still available that fit the 823 and 824's? I'm happy with the scope but wonder if a more modern advanced eyepiece would be a way of upgrading the scope? Would prefer a zoom, but fixed, if 30x or larger, would be fine I guess.
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    2016 UK Orchids

    On this one I see a viscidium, and a purpurata-like anther cap. Dare I venture the "H" word?
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    2016 UK Orchids

    See my post #352 Mike.
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    2016 UK Orchids

    Classic Dune helleborine.
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    2016 UK Orchids

    Back to the Warwickshire Helleborines, which have now been confirmed as Dunes. The nearest colonies are at Alyn Waters, 100 miles away, and in North Lincs, 125 miles away. The unusual feature of the Warwickshire plants, which do look exactly like Dune Helleborines ostensibly, is that they ALL...
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    2016 UK Orchids

    Hi Simon We wouldn't normally post such detailed locations on a public group. More general is best. FYI everyone else, I am not opening up the site disclosure discussion, please let's not start that one.
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    2016 UK Orchids

    Finally got round to editing my photo's of the Warwickshire Helleborines, taken on 12th July. Went back this Tuesday and the heat has ruined most of the flowers on the plants that haven't been nibbled off. Most or al of the plants at the site are cross-pollinated, but they do look a lot like...
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    2016 UK Orchids

    Well said John. Not sure which of the hillsides you went to but the main one had a plant right by the footpath a few days ago, and about 20 plants total.
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    2016 UK Orchids

    There is a report on the UK Native Orchids group on FB of 500+ spikes found this weekend. :eek!::eek!:
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    2016 UK Orchids

    Yes, that was me if you remember!
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    Orchid for ID, Flamborough

    And if the Lynesmeister agrees, then I do too.
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    Orchid id

    Yes, you can see the lip pattern on the top right hand flower - it is a Common Spotted. It also has bracts.
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    2016 UK Orchids

    Blimey John, you're back!! Was only talking about you the other day, finding the Derbyshire Burnts on account of a photographer kneeling over something on the distant hillside!
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    2016 UK Orchids

    I visited the site yesterday, having seen the very convincing photo's. Unfortunately the plant in the photo's was unusual in terms of the whole colony (of about 40 plants), in that it was the only one (currently in flower) without a viscidium. As such, the plants appear to be the "duneslack"...
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    2016 UK Orchids

    Haha, yes, we must have met, but that is not a very good description of me!
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    2016 UK Orchids

    Red Helleborine update: This year, at two sites, seven plants flowered (four in Bucks, three in Gloucs), but only one remains at each site. The Bucks plant is quite pathetic, having five flowers (it was the weediest one of the four, but managed to escape the molluscs), the bottom one already...
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    2016 UK Orchids

    Great Frogs. The all-green form is stunning. If that was on Bald Hill, that is a second site in Oxfordshire.
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    2016 UK Orchids

    The three flowering plants this year were, by last weekend, reduced to one by mollusc damage. That singleton was still in bud last Sunday, and bent over, so not visible from outside the compound unless you knew exactly where it was. Access into the compound is very limited because of risk of...
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