ID ...Northern Marsh Orchid?

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• Yviestevie Posts: 7,066

  June 2019

  No idea, but it's very beautiful.
  

  Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  June 2019

  Very beautiful.
  

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• edhelka Posts: 2,351

  June 2019

  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.
  

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• elizabethp2009 Posts: 14

  June 2019

  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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