Orchids

Many people have recently been noticing attractive groups of Banded Greenhood, Pterostylis sanguinea, flowering along the track edges. Banded Greenhood These are distinctive greenhood orchids with…

Trim Greenhood, Pterostylis concinna, is a neat, slender orchid growing in large colonies and we were excited to find some in bud on the Angair Walk on…

The Fringed Hare Orchids, Leporella fimbriata, are delighting us once again with their wide, ballerina-like labellum, purple fringed with a green centre. Colonies of ground hugging red-veined…

This orchid is only known from a few places in the Anglesea district so it was very exciting to discover it flowering in a Moggs…

Parsons Bands, Eriochilus cucullatus, are usually one of our first autumn orchids to flower, but so far, they haven’t been seen, no doubt due to the…

Our weather has been so dry but still the Rosy Hyacinth Orchid, Dipodium roseum, and the Spotted Hyacinth Orchid, D. pardalinum, have been delighting both visitors and…

The Large Duck Orchid, Caleana major, is always exciting to find with its maroon, duck-like, glossy flower. Large Duck Orchid The Little Duck, C. minor, is a smaller…

The spring orchids have been flowering well, especially the sun orchids opening in the warm sunny weather. It is very hard to choose just one…

A warm, sunny, spring day and suddenly there are lots of purple Wax-lip Orchids, Glossodia major, in varying shades of colour to see. Wax-lip Orchid (image: Neil…

The hairy leaves of spider orchids are appearing in many areas around the district now. Spider Orchid leaves One of the first spider orchids to…