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Fieldfare

  • Joined Feb 2011
ID needed- strange plant in pasture
« 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 :)

Sandy

  • Guest
Re: ID needed- strange plant in pasture
« Reply #1 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???

Hermit

  • Joined Feb 2010
Re: ID needed- strange plant in pasture
« Reply #2 on: February 29, 2012, 08:32:02 pm »
Looks like an orchid to me as well.

in the hills

  • Joined Feb 2012
Re: ID needed- strange plant in pasture
« Reply #3 on: February 29, 2012, 08:48:13 pm »
Hi

Yes, I would say maybe an Early spotted orchid.

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: ID needed- strange plant in pasture
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2012, 12:20:05 am »
Orchid  :D
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Womble

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Stirlingshire, Central Scotland
Re: ID needed- strange plant in pasture
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2012, 07:46:09 am »

Grass?  ??? ::)
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manian

  • Joined Sep 2010
Re: ID needed- strange plant in pasture
« Reply #6 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

Fieldfare

  • Joined Feb 2011
Re: ID needed- strange plant in pasture
« Reply #7 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!

Simon O

  • Joined Mar 2010
  • Bonkle
Re: ID needed- strange plant in pasture
« Reply #8 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

Sandy

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Re: ID needed- strange plant in pasture
« Reply #9 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:

Fieldfare

  • Joined Feb 2011
Re: ID needed- strange plant in pasture
« Reply #10 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:

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: ID needed- strange plant in pasture
« Reply #11 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
"Let's not talk about what we can do, but do what we can"

There is NO planet B - what are YOU doing to save our home?

Do something today that your future self will thank you for - plant a tree

 Love your soil - it's the lifeblood of your land.

Miss Piggy

  • Joined Mar 2011
  • Cardigan Bay, Ceredigion
Re: ID needed- strange plant in pasture
« Reply #12 on: March 13, 2012, 10:51:54 pm »
Agree with those who thing it is an early purple orchid.  :wave:

 

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