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Growing => Identification => Topic started by: Fieldfare on February 29, 2012, 07:44:12 pm

Title: ID needed- strange plant in pasture
Post by: Fieldfare on February 29, 2012, 07:44:12 pm

Errrmmm...really emabrassingly bad photo :) it's the spotted one in the middle! Any ideas would be useful but when I have time I'll find it again and take a better photo :)

Title: Re: ID needed- strange plant in pasture
Post by: Sandy on February 29, 2012, 08:22:50 pm

I cannot see too well and thought a good photo of a bull was a goat soooooo??? I wonder if its some type of wild orchid???

Title: Re: ID needed- strange plant in pasture
Post by: Hermit on February 29, 2012, 08:32:02 pm

Looks like an orchid to me as well.

Title: Re: ID needed- strange plant in pasture
Post by: in the hills on February 29, 2012, 08:48:13 pm

Hi

Yes, I would say maybe an Early spotted orchid.

Title: Re: ID needed- strange plant in pasture
Post by: Fleecewife on March 01, 2012, 12:20:05 am

Orchid  :D

Title: Re: ID needed- strange plant in pasture
Post by: Womble on March 01, 2012, 07:46:09 am

Grass?  ??? ::)

Title: Re: ID needed- strange plant in pasture
Post by: manian on March 01, 2012, 10:43:03 am

can't see  well
but probably an early purple orchid

does it have long purple blothces on the leaves?  then it will be this but

if it is a narrow leaf with round bloches it will be a common spotted orchid

Mx

Title: Re: ID needed- strange plant in pasture
Post by: Fieldfare on March 01, 2012, 10:14:10 pm

Hi all- thanks for the ID's - but I'm hedging towards (sorry for the pun!) that it might actually be some sort of woodrush? I had a look for it this evening and of course can't find it. Watch this space as I will find it again!

Title: Re: ID needed- strange plant in pasture
Post by: Simon O on March 01, 2012, 10:28:21 pm

I think we need a better photo but looks like an orchid to me too - we have lots like that

Title: Re: ID needed- strange plant in pasture
Post by: Sandy on March 03, 2012, 09:20:21 pm

i always tell my brother to come onto this site, he says he cannot find people who like talking about plants that are not always garden plants....he sends me puzzels to solve all the time....... :wave:

Title: Re: ID needed- strange plant in pasture
Post by: Fieldfare on March 05, 2012, 08:34:15 pm

Hi- all thanks for the replies :) I have searched again and not found the bloody thing! It is somewhere in a 4 acre field so the proverbial needle in a haystack. Will look again when I have nothing to fill my time with  :chook: :sheep: :&>  :farmer:

Title: Re: ID needed- strange plant in pasture
Post by: Fleecewife on March 05, 2012, 11:22:51 pm

When you find it, mark the spot so you can see if it puts up a flower

Title: Re: ID needed- strange plant in pasture
Post by: Miss Piggy on March 13, 2012, 10:51:54 pm

Agree with those who thing it is an early purple orchid.  :wave: