tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5334048668354898660.post7001963369028588547..comments2024-01-08T19:01:37.331+00:00Comments on Donegal Wildlife: Spotted Orchids (better late than never)Stuarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15225743105419715015noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5334048668354898660.post-65068905988578281582023-09-11T21:47:34.433+01:002023-09-11T21:47:34.433+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.TSI Nunumuhttps://tsi-nunumu.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5334048668354898660.post-45832598830823771372013-06-24T22:29:22.768+01:002013-06-24T22:29:22.768+01:00Gill: I think the ones which are mostly NMO are pr...Gill: I think the ones which are mostly NMO are pretty accurate in colour: darker background colour than CSO or HSO ever reach. Interesting about Early Marsh (EMO) being one of the parents of NMO: I have always seen a similarity in the shape of the flower and pattern of the dots. Both remind me of a vertical spotty bow-tie. NMO hereabouts is intermediate in date between EMO and CSO/HSO (although closer to CSO/HSO), so that would tie in, too. An orchid geneticist tells me that Frog Orchid seems to be the ancestor of all of the Dactyl orchids, since it is genetically closer to them than they are to each other. This is clearly complex (but very interesting) ground.Stuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15225743105419715015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5334048668354898660.post-66590239678279325772013-06-24T19:44:23.820+01:002013-06-24T19:44:23.820+01:00I agree absolutely on the fact these orchids are a...I agree absolutely on the fact these orchids are at their most attractive as they open. I'm surprised your NMO aren't darker - none of those shown have what I consider to be the classic "dark wine-purple" of classic NMO (which according to something I've been reading is itself derived as a tetraploid hybrid between early marsh and one of the "spotted orchids", CSO I think. I'm interested your NMO flower earlier than the other dactylorchids - not something I'd picked up, though it makes sense if one of its ancestors is early marsh.Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15736035484977149890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5334048668354898660.post-88088523535494408742013-06-24T19:21:34.982+01:002013-06-24T19:21:34.982+01:00Again I shall direct my orchid spotting friend to ...Again I shall direct my orchid spotting friend to your site to look at these photographs Stuart. Excellent.The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.com