#native orchids

So many rosy hyacinth orchids by the track. Lots of kookaburas, a whipbird, a golden whistler, and a cheeky crimson rosella that told us off for getting to close to his nest.

From Calflora- "Cypripedium californicum, the California lady's slipper, is a member of the orchid genus Cypripedium, the lady's slipper orchids, native to the western United States. It often grows in very large clumps and each stem can bear up to 21 flowers. It can grow to be up to over a meter in height and has alternate, plicate leaves the length of the stem. The petals and sepals tend to be greenish-brown while the small pouch is pure white with occasional pink spots.[2] Iit has a very restricted range and can only be found in the mountains of southwestern Oregon (including the Kalmiopsis Wilderness) and northern California. It prefers the margins of woodland streams in open coniferous forests."

@samirafee

This is Goodyera pubescens, another common summer-blooming native orchid, also known as Downy Rattlesnake Plantain.

(Thelymitra media) Tall Sun-orchid, Mardan, Victoria, Australia

Showy Orchid, Galearis spectabilis

Rattlesnake plantain, Goodyera pubescens. A small native orchid blooming in the woods now.