Thirty years ago I found triplet fly orchids

PLANT hunters will again be out looking for what some call the rarest flower in Sussex.

Here is a picture of it taken five years ago by Duncan Fletcher, who has been tracking down wild orchids for years and is quite used to seeing many of the 26 or so wild orchids and their variants which occur in Sussex.

This one was, however, new to him.

Technically it is described as a cross between 278.2 and 278.5, the fly orchid and the bee orchid, so it is a hybrid.

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