Deenamic opened this issue on Jul 01, 2016 ยท 48 posts
Sunflowers159 posted Mon, 04 July 2016 at 2:46 AM
Yes Dee, it's a Pyramidal Orchid - one of the 56 species of wild orchids we have here in Britain. Here's another one: an Ivy Broomrape. Broomrapes are fascinating because they have no chlorophyll themselves and so they parasitise other plants. Each species of Broomrape grows on a specific host plant and this one grows on ivy. We have a very localised yellow form around here - and this is a small group of them. Sorry about the poor quality of the photo. They were growing in an awkward place where I had a bit of a problem getting a good angle on them and the sunlight reflecting from the raindrops on them made for very bad contrasts :( .