Blotched Hyacinth Orchid
by Maryse Jansen
Title
Blotched Hyacinth Orchid
Artist
Maryse Jansen
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
This leafless terrestrial orchid produces a stem with 5 up to 60 pretty flowers. The flowers are pale to bright pink and covered in heavy red-purple blotches. The green stem can get up to 1m tall and the flowers are 2-2.5cm wide. When not flowering, the plant spends its life underground. Only once a year can you be lucky enough to see the flowering stems grow up out of the earth! Underground, they live in a partnership with a fungus to which they attach their roots. This way the orchid gets some nutrients. The green stem does photosynthesise, despite the fact that there are no leaves, and the orchid shares its produced carbohydrates with their fungus host. This partnership is called a myco-heterotrophic relationship.
Blotched Hyacinth Orchid is native to continental eastern and south eastern Australia. The plant can be spotted in open Eucalypt forests along coastal ranges. It’s often confused with Dipodium Roseum (Rosy Hyacinth Orchid or Pink Hyacinth Orchid) but that species has darker pink, less heavily spotted flowers. Taken in south east Queensland, Australia.
Thank you to the following groups on Fine Art America for featuring this image on their home page:
Macro Marvels 02-04-2021
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flowers, wild flowers, Blotched Hyacinth Orchid, Hyacinth Orchid, Orchid, Dipodium Punctatum, Orchidaceae, native, Queensland, Australia, leafless, plant, stem, white, purple, blotches, spotted, close up, macro
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Comments (19)
Gary F Richards
Congratulations on your Top Finish in the contest… ORCHIDS IN THE WILD - PHOTOGRAPHY ONLY! F/L
Gary F Richards
Spectacular Blotched Hyacinth Orchid composition, lighting, shading, excellent colors and artwork! F/L voted
Gary F Richards
Outstanding macro composition, lighting, shading, color and artwork! F/L voted for this piece in the contest ELEGANT FLORAL MACRO - PHOTOGRAPHY
John M Bailey
Congratulations on your feature in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
Gary F Richards
Spectacular colorful purple composition, lighting, shading, colors and artwork! F/L … voted for this piece in the BEAUTIFUL PURPLE IMAGE CONTEST!
Bentley Davis
Congratulations! I have selected this piece to be featured in the Art for the Love of Art group.
Brian Tada
Very lovely colors and lighting ~ Congratulations on your feature in the Australian Wildflowers and Native Plants Group!
Michaela Perryman
Congratulations, featured Australian Wildflowers and Native Plants Group 20th February 2021. You can see all the features in the discussion page
Morris Finkelstein
Beautiful close up photograph of a wild Orchid with great colors and perspective, Maryse! F/L
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