• Plant: Early Purple Orchid (Orchis mascula)
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  • Info: Documentation / c. 1913 / License: Public domain
  • Caption: illustration of Orchis mascula (left) & Dactylorhiza maculata as Orchis maculata from Gatin's 'Les fleurs du bois', 1913
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Other Photos
Location: Mountain forest near Big Sochi
Date: 2009-04-19
The picture was captured by me in the evening, at the begining of
Location: Mountain forest near Big Sochi
Date: 2009-04-10
The picture was captured by me on the sunny morning at the begini

Date: c. 1869
illustration from 'English Botany', vol. 9, 1869
Location: Marfield Wetlands Reserve Masham N.Yorks
Date: 2018-06-07
Location: Mountain forest near Big Sochi
Date: 2009-04-10
On the southern hillside.
Location: Mountain forest near Big Sochi 
Date: 2009-04-10
There's the form with the spoted leaves.

Date: May
credit: Tuxyso
Location: Mountain forest near Big Sochi 
Date: 2009-04-10
The pic shows the start of the blooming.

Photo courtesy of: Jose Vicente Ferrandez