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Orchids, botany. I run a Facebook group on the Orchids of Kent (UK). (under the name Bishop Brian Jones). churchcrawling Trains Butterflies, moths Football (Norwich City) Music https://jelltex.blogspot.com/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/jelltecks

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Jelltex @jelltex.bsky.social · 4h

For #ATrainADay:

4472 Flying Scotsman at Chartham

Jelltex @jelltex.bsky.social · 10h

For #AnOrchidADay:

A sickly yellow White Helleborine, Cephalanthera damasonium probably var. chloritica.

From 2018. The plant appeared once since, but the whole wood lost all orchids, White Helleborines and Bird's Nest #Orchids, probably due to snails and slugs in the winter of 2023.

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Glen Ryan @silverdory.bsky.social · 1d

Pink cap orchid - Caladenia clarkiae - near Genoa, East Gippsland, VIC.

This is probably the pinkest form of this small cap orchid I have seen in East Gippsland - although plants with almost entirely reddish/pink flowers are found in some locations.

#orchids #inthefield #Caladenia #ozplants

Pink cap orchid - Caladenia clarkiae - near Genoa, East Gippsland, VIC.

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Glen Ryan @silverdory.bsky.social · 4d

Diuris orientis (eastern donkey orchid / wallflower orchid) in open grassland near the Genoa River, East Gippsland, VIC.

More out this spring than the last few years but didn't see any of the 100% yellow forms which occasionally occur here.

#orchids #inthefield #ozplants #spring

Diuris orientis (eastern donkey orchid / wallflower orchid) in open grassland near the Genoa River, East Gippsland, VIC.

Diuris orientis (eastern donkey orchid / wallflower orchid) in open grassland near the Genoa River, East Gippsland, VIC.

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Glen Ryan @silverdory.bsky.social · 16h

Interesting tall leek orchid (Prasophyllum elatum) form with green stems + green/yellow flowers near Mallacoota, East Gippsland, VIC. Just a few scattered plants flowering this year surrounded by large numbers of the more common black-stemmed forms - but with almost no intergrades #orchids #ozplants

Interesting tall leek orchid (Prasophyllum elatum) form with green stems + green/yellow flowers near Mallacoota, East Gippsland, VIC.

Jelltex @jelltex.bsky.social · 17h

The Saxon west wall of St Martin of Tours in Canterbury

Jelltex @jelltex.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, It is.

Seeing it from about 2m away, after searching for five years, was quite the emotional experience.

Jelltex @jelltex.bsky.social · 1d

For #ATrainADay:

Clan Line at Minster-in-Thanet

Jelltex @jelltex.bsky.social · 1d

Living here in Kent, Wantsum, Angels and Demons, Ripple, Time and Tide are all excellent breweries.

I avoid SN if possible.

But that's just me.

Jelltex @jelltex.bsky.social · 1d

For #AnOrchidADay:

The rarest native Kent #Orchid of them all: Burnt (Tip) Orchid, Neotinea ustulata.

One of only three plants that I know of in the county.

Jelltex @jelltex.bsky.social · 1d

Love pasqueflowers!

Jelltex @jelltex.bsky.social · 2d

*surprisingly

Jelltex @jelltex.bsky.social · 2d

For #BSkyBeer:

A surprisinglot good pint 🍺 of Shepherd Neame Late Red

Jelltex @jelltex.bsky.social · 2d

For #ATrainADay:

#Eurostars at St Pancras.

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Glen Ryan @silverdory.bsky.social · 2d

First flowers are out on the patch of sun orchids just behind the house at home in Corunna, NSW. These early plants are probably closer to TheIymitra peniculata (trim sun orchid) than anything else - although later plants usually show more variation, with some maybe closer to T. pauciflora #orchids

Sun orchids (Thelymitra sp.) flowering near Corunna NSW.

Jelltex @jelltex.bsky.social · 2d

For #AnOrchidADay:

A most splendid spike of Early Spider #Orchids

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Mandy Forde @mandyforde.bsky.social · 3d

I know I've said it before but I definitely need a longer fence 😲
It's getting to peak garden #Chough numbers now and it's only early October.
I'm guessing the daily count might top 70 this Winter.
Photos taken with my phone about 2 foot from the fence line.
#Anglesey
#WildWebsWednesday

Jelltex @jelltex.bsky.social · 2d

Oh Wom. Sending hugs and love.

Glad to have you back home.

Jelltex @jelltex.bsky.social · 3d

For #ATrainADay:

DLR at Poplar

Jelltex @jelltex.bsky.social · 3d

St Catherine, Kingsdown, Sittingbourne, Kent

More #Pugintastic

EW Pugin's only complete Anglican church

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WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 3d

Enamel orchids (Elythranthera sp.) are endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. These orchids really do have the shiniest petals and sepals you will ever see 💜🩷

#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #bloomscrolling

A pinky/purple Enamel orchid with highly shiny petals

A pinky/purple Enamel orchid with highly shiny petals

Jelltex @jelltex.bsky.social · 3d

For #BSkyBeer:

Ice cold Neck Oil at Mex-on-the-Beach, Deal.

Hit the spot.

Jelltex @jelltex.bsky.social · 3d

For #AnOrchidADay:

Common Twayblade, Neottia ovata. #Orchid

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 3d

Some excellent #orchids with excellent names in #Tasmania & #RoyalNationalPark:
Three-horned bird orchid (Chiloglottis triceratops, which Wikipedia reckons is named as it resembles the dinosaur, rather then because it has three "horns" on its tongue).
Red bearded #orchid.
Sun orchid.
Mayfly orchid.🌸

Three-horned bird orchid (Chiloglottis triceratop

Red bearded orchid

Sun orchid Thelymitra

Mayfly orchid Acianthus caudatus,

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See Through Canoe @seethroughcanoe.bsky.social · 12d

Incredible footage of a rarely filmed large 3 dimensional school of circling Cownose Rays. I was really psyched to have captured this. The 3 dimensional school was circling on a horizontal plane and also on a vertical plane.
#nature #amazing #animals #awesome #ocean #wildlife #mesmerizing