Botany help

[carsandkites at gmail.com (Kervin)]

It smells sweet!  I didn't get anymore pictures cause I was out of
batteries when I got down there.  It's on a Farm next to a mountain
bike trail, so i hope no one crashes into it.  Thanks for all the
help.

Kervin 

On 5/8/05, C Boyko <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca> wrote:
> On 7:27:49 pm 05/07/05 "Sandor" <sandor@vwot.org> wrote:
> > I'll rule out the trillium for ya...provincial flower of ontario and
> > that's not it.
> > My vote is for the lady slipper
> >
> >
> > sandor
> >
> > >  The flower is in central Virginia.
> > >
> > >  On 5/7/05, John S. Lagnese <jlagnese@massed.net> wrote:
> > >>  Where is this? It could be a tired Jack in the Pulpit.
> > >>  John
> >
> 
> Trillium : Liliaceae- has three sepals and three petals, our provincial
> flower, very symmetrical. That ain't it. (They have three showy petals
> (erm, tri-llium?), in the case of our provincial flower T. grandiflorum
> (the big flowered one, grandi-florum), they would be white.)
> 
> Jack in the Pulpit: An arum, they have a hooded floral structure, typically
> green, and if you flip up the hood, there's "jack" standing in his pulpit.
> Though most church goers would be horrified to see "that" standing in the
> pulpit. And they have three part leaves, like a trillium. So I'm saying
> nope.
> 
> Lady's sippper: Orchidaceae - now we're cooking with gas. Ans Orchids are
> not that common, but from a quick look at my handy Audubon guide, I'd say
> it's the "showy orchis" (Orchis, as a side note, being from the Greek word
> for testicle)
> 
> Anyway, the showy orchis, (Orchis spectabilis) . Leaves are from according
> to my reference, has 2-15 white and deep lavender flowers on a short floral
> stalk over two large, glossy green leaves 2 1/2-8", ovate to elliptic,
> which sheath the stem. Flowers are 1" with 2 lateral petals, and the sepals
> fused to form a hood of pink or lavender over a white spurred lower lip
> petal,
> 
> sounds about right?
> 
> Its range would include Virginia. "The long spur of this beautiful,
> fragrant Orcid of the rich woods provides a syrup very rich in sugar. A
> rare Northern species."
> 
> I'd advise you go back out there, crawl around and sniff the thing. (and
> take a ton of pictures!!!) And don't try to transplanting it. Wild orchids
> generaly resent being moved, and have a very narrow band of cultural
> requirements, so it'd probably be better off where it is.
> 
> FINALLY somehting I feel semi-qualified to comment on...
> 
> Cathy
> BSc Physiological and Developmental Botany...
> 
>