Flora ID please

[Gollum]

Does this help Fungus.

I took these pics on the North Downs on an area we cleared for reinstating natural chalk grassland.

 

 

 

[Fungus]

Does this help Fungus. I took these pics on the North Downs on an area we cleared for reinstating natural chalk grassland.

 

Gollum,

No, because this is an orchid and the other one is a leafless parasitic broomrape.

[ScottF]

That ain't an orchid

[Gollum]

Gollum,

No, because this is an orchid and the other one is a leafless parasitic broomrape.

I was relating this to Ben's picture are they not the same

[Gollum]

That ain't an orchid

 

which one aint an orchid

 

This is

 

[Fungus]

I was relating this to Ben's picture are they not the same

 

Yes, they both are (the same) orchids, but your first pictures are of an Orobanche species.

[Gollum]

Yes, they both are (the same) orchids, but your first pictures are of an Orobanche species.

 

With you know I almost lost the thread then