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We surveyed the area ahead of us, it looked
good, a huge area of Spear Grass Trees lay before us. We sprayed
ourselves all over with repellent and donned our mesh headgear. We could
see that we needed lots of protection. The mossies were thick and spider webs were everywhere! We crisscrossed the area once, then again. We circled the areas boundary and decided they may not be here! But lets look one more time! We noticed a flash of red! We peeled back the dense undergrowth and there was a great specium. Lucky, as we had no plan-B. These are rare orchids with only a few populations known with only several hundred plants existing in the wild. Photographed in the East Gippsland area. |
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Details (Vic): Flowering: Flowering January to February, mainly January. Size: Up to 45cm tall, flowers - usually 4 to 10, to 35mm long. Location: Grows on Spear Grass-Tree plains and adjacent heathlands, in moist sandy soils. Endemic, Endangered.
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