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Post by fredg on Aug 3, 2010 18:50:18 GMT
Platanthera flava,the Pale Green Orchid, is a small flowered terrestrial from the Eastern half of North America. It is found in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, Washington DC, New Jersey, New York, Conneticut, Rhode Island, Massachusets, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. This is a bog plant, it requires to be wet at all times. Platanthera flava
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Post by Brian Barnes on Aug 3, 2010 20:56:57 GMT
Hey FREDDDD! Those are beautiful indeed. And I believe they even have a fruity, tart-like scent... Happy Growing, Brian
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Post by ncorchid on Jul 4, 2011 21:41:36 GMT
Dear Fred, I'm a new member & saw your great photo. I'm sorry to say but it is mis-identified. The plant in the photo is Platanthera clavellata. There is a movement to change the genus to Gymnadeniopsis but it has not been accepted yet. The common name of the plant is Little Club Spur orchid. It grows in the eastern portion of the US & Canada and is quite common in some areas. Its primary habitat is wet stream sides and it is partial to growing in spagnum. Here is a link to a Google page full of other photos of the plant including some of mine. images.google.co.uk/images?q=Platanthera+clavellata&biw=1239&bih=587Best Regards, David McAdoo
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Post by paulbarden on Jul 4, 2011 22:00:45 GMT
Lovely photo, thank you. I am reminded of childhood bog ventures and encountering Habenaria blephariglottis, a similar species with elaborately frilled lips.
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Post by coldcoffee on Jul 8, 2011 8:42:08 GMT
Oooooh. I want that!
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Post by fredg on Jul 9, 2011 18:26:50 GMT
Dear Fred, I'm a new member & saw your great photo. I'm sorry to say but it is mis-identified. The plant in the photo is Platanthera clavellata. There is a movement to change the genus to Gymnadeniopsis but it has not been accepted yet. The common name of the plant is Little Club Spur orchid. It grows in the eastern portion of the US & Canada and is quite common in some areas. Its primary habitat is wet stream sides and it is partial to growing in spagnum. Here is a link to a Google page full of other photos of the plant including some of mine. images.google.co.uk/images?q=Platanthera+clavellata&biw=1239&bih=587Best Regards, David McAdoo Thank you for your input David. Your comments however do raise a conundrum. I also grow Platanthera clavelatta, here is a photo of it taken on the 19th of May this year. Platanthera clavellataThe plant that you identify as Platanthera clavellata and I as Platanthera flava has not yet opened it's flowers. Every year it flowers two months later and taller than my Platanthera clavellata.The flowers are not the same.
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Post by jfowler on Jul 18, 2011 19:11:33 GMT
Interestingly enough, David is correct on the identification of the plant in the first photo. It is not all that unusual for orchids from different lattitudes and environments to bloom at different times even if they are grown right next to each other.
For example, I have Calopogon tuberosus orchids (Common Grass-pink orchid) from areas in the Carolinas which are separated by more than 300 miles. One comes from an area on the Atlantic Coastal Plain and the other comes from the Southern Appalachian mountains. The ones from the mountain environment bloom three to four weeks earlier than the ones from the coast. Same for two groups of Platanthera ciliaris (Yellow Fringed orchid) -- they bloom about three to four weeks apart.
I'm not going to pretend to know why this happens, except that it must be something in the DNA to cause this difference.
BTW, both photos show plants that appear to be very happy where they are growing...
Jim Fowler, Greenville, South Carolina
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Post by fredg on Sept 1, 2011 18:47:24 GMT
Thanks Jim and David, that sorts that out. The second time this supplier got it wrong
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