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    2011 UK Orchid season updates

    Hi Dave & Gareth, it does look like Dactylorhiza base, here is a couple of hybrids but these are frog & common spotted.
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    2011 UK Orchid season updates

    That is rather weird then Rich,was it at your local friburgensis site?
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    2011 UK Orchid season updates

    Hi Mike, although a few years ago I saw lots of chlorantha along the road from Akrotiri towards Lady's Mile Beach, the bicolor were all near Kato Akourdaleia. We did go back again this year but as everything was late, we were able to see collina & punctulata but no apifera at all.
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    2011 UK Orchid season updates

    fusca My original considerations about SSP & vars was proven when I visited Cyprus in 2005. Most of the bee orchids I found there were chlorantha & bicolour with only one standard flower found on the last day. Exactly the same flowers but 12000 miles away. The reason I post “atro” with inverted...
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    2011 UK Orchid season updates

    fuscus Here is the next one that has now appeared, but is it good enough? possibly not quite 100% First pic from last year, 2nd today & the one from last weekend which is called atro.
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    2011 UK Orchid season updates

    Atrofuscus Hi all, found that 2 of the "atros" are just out today. So fingers crossed for the fulvofuscato also to return this year.
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