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ID ...Northern Marsh Orchid?

elizabethp2009elizabethp2009 Posts: 14
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Hi.I found this today on the edge of a field.Is it a Northern Marsh Orchid.
Thanks Liz

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  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,040
    No idea, but it's very beautiful.
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • FireFire Posts: 17,116
    Very beautiful.
  • edhelkaedhelka Posts: 2,307
    My grandfather is an orchid grower (he has a huge greenhouse with hundreds of them) and he used to show me wild orchids in marsh meadows in Czech mountains and taught me to recognise them (not that he has done a bad job but I was an active kid, only half-listening). But I am not familiar with Brittish orchids, I can tell it is dactylorhiza and I think you are right about it being d. purpurella. It reminds me d. majalis which is common back in my home country. I had to check it on google and all marsh orchids (northern, western, southern) are quite similar and they can also hybridize among themselves and with other dactylorhiza species like common spotted orchids.
  • elizabethp2009elizabethp2009 Posts: 14
    edhelka said:
    My grandfather is an orchid grower (he has a huge greenhouse with hundreds of them) and he used to show me wild orchids in marsh meadows in Czech mountains and taught me to recognise them (not that he has done a bad job but I was an active kid, only half-listening). But I am not familiar with Brittish orchids, I can tell it is dactylorhiza and I think you are right about it being d. purpurella. It reminds me d. majalis which is common back in my home country. I had to check it on google and all marsh orchids (northern, western, southern) are quite similar and they can also hybridize among themselves and with other dactylorhiza species like common spotted orchids.
    Thanks for that. I read that they can hybridise too when I was looking in my books and online.Its such a beautiful colour.
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