Showing posts with label Orchids of Cyprus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Orchids of Cyprus. Show all posts
Monday, 2 April 2018
Sunday, 1 April 2018
Ophrys hybrid - Kapouti Cyprus
The hybrid found by Sami Tamson near Kapouti (Cyprus). Around 5-8 plants, growing in a pine-forest, close to open grounds very rich with orchids.
Photos Kapouti 17/3/2018 by George Konstantinou
Thank you Sami Tamson for the information
Photos Kapouti 17/3/2018 by George Konstantinou
Thank you Sami Tamson for the information
Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Thursday, 11 January 2018
Friday, 28 August 2015
Autumn Ladies Tresses - Spiranthes spiralis (L.) Chevall. - Cyprus
Spiranthes spiralis, commonly known as autumn lady's-tresses, is a palearctic orchid which in Europe blooms in August and September. It is characterised by a spiral inflorescence produced after the leaves have died down. The inflorescence can be very small (as little as 50 millimetres or 2.0 inches high) especially in short grazed grassland. In Western Europe it occurs most frequently in close cropped grassland overlying chalk or limestone.
S. spiralis is a short tuberous perennial which reaches heights between 5 and 30 centimeters. The stem is stickily-hairy.The plant has two tubers as storage organs, rarely, one or three. From Autumn two new tubers are formed and the old tubers lowly die off. The shiny oval-elliptical foliage leaves form a basal rosette close to the ground and to one side of the flower-spike. There are from three to seven and they have a length of 1.5 to 3.5 cm and a width of 1 to 1.5 cm. The leaves are often withered by flowering time. The stem leaves are scale-like and overlapping;the bracts are shorter than the flowers.
The flowers are white, 6-7mm long. There are up to 20 borne in a slender spiral 3 to 12 cm long.The outer 2 sepals are spreading, the upper sepal and the petals fuse to form a tube with the lip. The lip has up-curved edges and is yellowish-green. The edge of the lip is notched and appears viewed up close as frayed.
The growth cycle differs from most other European orchids. Between July and August the flowering stem begins to grow. At this time, no leaves are visible. Between late August and early October, the leaves develop next to the flowering stem. They survive the winter and grow until the beginning of summer when they wither.The next flowering stem then grows from the center of the withered rosette of leaves .
Dry grassy places, meadows, garigue, heaths, pine woodland, generally on calcareous soils..From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Serapias levantina H. Baumann & Künkele - Cyprus
Serapias is a genus of terrestrial orchids that can be found all over southern Europe to Asia Minor. The genus was named after Serapis, a syncretic Hellenistic-Egyptian god in Antiquity. Serapias have spurless flowers and usually go dormant during the winter seasons.
Photos Kormakitis 4/4/2015 by George Konstantinou
Serapias bergonii E.G.Camus - Cyprus
Serapias bergonii is a species of orchids found from Italy to western and southern Turkey.
Photos Akrotiri 19/3/2014 by George Konstantinou
Platanthera holmboei H. Lindb.- Cyprus
Platanthera holmboei is a species of orchid native to the eastern Mediterranean (northern Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, the Greek Islands, and Cyprus).
Photos Tsakkistra 13/4/2013 by George Konstantinou
Ophrys mammosa subsp. posteria B. Baumann & H. Baumann - Cyprus
Photos Sia 2/3/2015 by George Konstantinou
Orchis syriaca - Anacamptis syriaca - Cyprus
Anacamptis syriaca is a subspecies of orchid. It has been found in Cyprus, Turkey and Lebanon
Photos Sia 2/3/2015 by George Konstantinou
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