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    2017 UK orchids

    A burnt orchid has been dug up on a N. Wilts site recently
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    2017 UK orchids

    Frost yesterday morning (-1C) damaged quite a number of flowering GWOs & both D. praetermissa & P. bifolia in bud.
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    Problem with oak trees?

    It's a gall caused by an insect
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    Bulgarian flowers for identification

    I think you are correct with the burnt orchid. Picture 4 is a saxifrage, though without seeing the flower impossible to be definitive. I did see a similar looking plant in Montenegro - Saxifraga federici augusti.
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    Marsh Orchid, UK.

    Looks like a hybrid I would suggest a hybrid between Early marsh & Common spotted.
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    What's this?

    Agreed. Definitely not cauliflower fungus. Do not consume.
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    2016 UK Orchids

    For me the first is D.x venusta & the second D.x formosa
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    Orchid ID, Belize

    Cow horn orchid A Google search for cow horn orchid will give you Cyrtopodium punctatum.
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    Orchid for ID, Flamborough

    For me it's a good match for Dactylorhiza x formosa, the hybrid between northern marsh & heath spotted. I saw several plants just like this recently in lowland Scotland.
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    2016 UK Orchids

    Try E. tremolsii.
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    Another Pyrenees flower please

    Looks like a speedwell
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    2016 UK Orchids

    Peebles I will be in Peebles for a few days this weekend. Does anyone have any suggestions please for nearby orchid sites that I might visit? Anything gratefully received. Thanks
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    Orchid, Brittany

    It is Dactylorhiza maculata (Heath-spotted orchid) & if it were the UK it would be ssp ericetorum but in France they have, on some basis, separated it as ssp elodes & the photo in Bournerias resembles your plants. It apparently occurs only in the north of the country. Lovely photo by the way.
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    2016 UK Orchids

    Hi Rich, I went back to the site a couple of days ago & counted several hundred. Also saw a couple like your photo elsewhere.
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    2016 UK Orchids

    Burnt orchid After many years observing this species at a number of Wiltshire sites I am more & more convinced that it is monocarpic. Populations fluctuate dramatically & plants are found in areas they have not previously been seen & disappear from areas where large numbers have occurred in...
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