Albino Fairy Slippers

[ronaldhanko]

You should look for the following species:

Corallorhiza striata var. vreelandii - May through June
(dry shady woodlands)
Cypripedium parviflorum - early June to July
(along and near streams in open forest)
Goodyera oblongifolia - August
(open woodlands - very common)
Goodyera repens - late July to August
(very similar to the previous species)
Liparis loeslii - late May to mid July
(sunny areas in bogs - this is very small)
Platanthera aquilonis - late June to early August
(boggy areas, even along roads and trails)
Platanthera dilatata - late June through August
(boggy and wet areas - hard to miss this one)
Platanthera orbiculata - July into August
(woodlands)
Platanthera praeclara - June and July
(wet prairies, fens, open plains)
Spiranthes diluvialis - mid July through August
(riverbanks, seeps, wet meadows)

[No-Pro-mwa]

Thanks Ron, I will try and print this out and look up pictures so next year I can maybe see if I can find some of them. Perhaps I have seen them and didn't know what I was looking at.

[ronaldhanko]

I hope you do find some of them. Hunting for native orchids is quite exciting, especially when you find them!

[No-Pro-mwa]

Ron if I do I will hope to take pictures and I will put them up. They will not be as good as yours but I will make sure, because I will be so exited I will not be able to contain myself. I have wanted to find some for several years now so knowing kind of when they are around might help. Thanks so much, hears to next year.

[samarak]

Superb pictures as always, Ron. Very beautiful. Long live the 100mm lens!

Steve

[ronaldhanko]

Originally Posted by No-Pro-mwa

Ron if I do I will hope to take pictures and I will put them up. They will not be as good as yours but I will make sure, because I will be so exited I will not be able to contain myself. I have wanted to find some for several years now so knowing kind of when they are around might help. Thanks so much, hears to next year.

I'm already eager to see them.

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Originally Posted by samarak

Superb pictures as always, Ron. Very beautiful. Long live the 100mm lens!

Steve

It's a great lens, isn't it?

[bethmarie]

I have always enjoyed your posts and photography, Ron. Really glad you take the time to share them here.

But your revelation about mosquitoes has strained our friendship. There's really a place with no mosquitoes? And you get to live there?

I just swatted the one that landed on my hand. I'm not outside orchid hunting. I'm sitting in my office in front of my computer. Does it cost a lot to move to the other coast?

[ronaldhanko]

No, no mosquitoes here - one of the reasons I like living here. Actually we probably do see one a year and in the mountains they can be bad at snow-melt time, but otherwise... Thanks for the nice comments, too, and as for the cost of moving, that I don't know.

[Aki_James]

These are truly lovely. My favorite native orchid by far. Nice to see the varieties. Did you happen to smell them ? The colonies by my house give off a lovely candy grape scent not sure if all varieties are scented though. I have the occidentalis variety up here.

I was going to say I think they are pollinated by bumble bees as I am scared to go by them usually I end up making one or two angry and running back home lol.

[ronaldhanko]

They are wonderful, aren't they, and you are right that they do have a faint scent, though I can't say I identified it with grapes.