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| A cluster of Green-comb Spider Orchids |
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| A jewel in the grass |
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| A spectacular little flower |
Tuesday, 1 October 2013
Orchids
While mist-netting birds at the weekend, out at the Weddin Mountains, NSW, we found ourselves walking through woodland understorey grassland, with numerous orchids in the sward. The first species I noticed was the Green-comb Spider Orchid Caladenia tentaculata which was growing in small groups of several flower spikes in several locations. All the flowers looked fresh and newly opened.
Other species which were frequent if not quite abundant included Purplish Bearded Orchid Calochilus robertsonii (Below), Blue Fingers Cyanicula caerulea, a species of greenhood and one or two species of sun orchid Thelymitra. I was too busy catching and banding birds to take enough photographs of all the species, so I grabbed what images I could on passing and sent them to Denis Wilson who kindly helped to identify them. He has some great illustrations on his own blog at http://www.peonyden.blogspot.com.au/ .
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