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| Highland Leek Orchid | Full Plant Habitat Special |
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| We found this orchid growing in a sub alpine, tussock grassland area, near alpine bogs. | |
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| Spiders often lay in wait for pollinators in and on an orchid flower, their web creating a mess, but here the spider is just using the large inflorescence as a pole to catch anything that flies past. |
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Most flower stems are released from the leaf early on in life before the orchid flowers but sometimes they get caught. |
| Not a pollinator - just looking for a bite to eat. |
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