It's not often that orchids grow these days in a
suburb of Melbourne. Housing pressures have usually wiped out
any orchids long ago. So when we were told of these orchids we were
surprised and of course had to have a look and photograph them.We were also told they were not quite the usual striatum but
something quite similar and were deemed to be a sp. aff.
We await more news!
Photographed in an eastern suburb, 2007.
Update: 2019, the orchids
have been recognized as different and named Pt. nichollsiana (G
Backhouse, Bush Beauties, The Wild Orchids of Victoria, Australia
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