Orchids

It was just one of those magical spring days with plenty of sunshine to encourage our sun orchids to open when our large group of…

October and November are the best months to see our beautiful sun orchids. The lemon-scented Rabbit Ears, Thelymitra antennifera, is one of the first to…

The beautiful Bluebeard Orchid, Pheladenia deformis, is popping up now in recently burnt areas. It is especially stunning when it appears in tight clusters of…

Thanks to the keen eyes of Angair member, Simone Shaw, we have a new helmet orchid to add to our extensive orchid list: the Spurred…

The highlight of the month is the emergence of Striped Greenhoods, Pterostylis striata, in the known site within the Great Otway National Park at Anglesea.…

With autumn almost over, and with no success in tracking down the Large Autumn Greenhood that flowered so well in the last two seasons, we…

We were thrilled to see the delightful Fringed Hare Orchids, Leporella fimbriata, flowering amongst low vegetation. Although the flower stem is only 25 cm high,…

Now is the time to look for the delightful Parson’s Bands, Eriochilus cucullatus. Parson's Bands The first ones were seen flowering on 14 March near…

Flowering amongst large colonies of leaves the tiny flowers of the Autumn Wasp Orchid, Chiloglottis curviclavia, are greenish brown to purplish. Autumn Wasp Orchid leaves…

They were growing in the Alcoa Conservation Reserve at Anglesea, flowering in December in the same area as Rosy Hyacinth Orchids, Dipodium roseum, and rare…