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orphys insektifera. The Fly-orphys. My favorite of them all, because of it´s daintyness. I drove 70 km today to the hill again, just to take this Photo...



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It's a great photo Nelke, of a very unusual plant :)

24 May, 2009

 

Thanks, Crazydi.

24 May, 2009

 

Its lovely Nelke.............

24 May, 2009

 

Thanks for driving all that way for the photo, it's a beauty! Is it carnivorous? Reminds me of an orchid :)

25 May, 2009

 

Definitely it is an orchid, wild growing on dry, poor, limy hills. It´s not to be held in gardens, because it needs some funghi - like many orchids in europe. Without these it dies. It is not a carnivore, but is dependent on special insects, that think it to be a partner. In trying to meet the "partner" they fructify the orchid. There are others of the family, imitating other insects, from which they are named, too. This is the "fly-orphys". It is the smallest, I think.

25 May, 2009

 

A lovely orchid, rather venemous color, all the better to draw those insects....lol.

1 Jun, 2009

 

see my blog, there I tell a webside, specially about these orchids!!

1 Jun, 2009



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