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We walked past this orchid 3 times till we
spotted it waving at us from the side of the track. Perhaps it
looked like a new Bracken Fern coming out the first few times, who knows,
who cares - we had yet another new orchid to photograph. Another one
was soon found across the track but this time it was green, yet another
orchid, no, a green variation of the black we concluded.
Photographed at Wonthaggi Heathland. |
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Details (Vic): Flowering: Flowering September to January, but mainly October to November. Size: Up to 150cm tall, flower - 10 to 60, to 15mm across. Position: Scattered along southern coastline, with some plants inland in the Grampians and Little Desert. Grows in heathlands, heathy woodlands and open forests, well drained sandy to clay loams. Endemic, Secure.
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| We often see spiders (well actually only when we go back home and look at the photos on a PC) this time it was a huge monster tackling the plant - eating all the good bits no doubt. | |
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