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Originally Posted by Jason Claxton  Hi Alexander it looks like Broad-leaved helleborine to me ,I can see why this one put you off.As to the flowering period I saw them into mid September this year.On another thread I asked whether or not people thought it was a good year for them,as I found quite a few more sites,and that numbers were well up in those I already knew.Has this been your experience?Thanks Jason  |
It's not a plant I'm very familiar with and according to the
Flora of the Bristol Region is meant to be uncommon at best, but I found a very nice specimen of Broad-leaved Helleborine by a roadside at Leigh Woods, in the Avon Gorge, Bristol, back in August (IIRC, I posted a couple of photos in my diary thread). It definitely wasn't there last year; the area's excellent for a wide range of aliens, some very unusual (there's a Botanic Garden nearby, or at least there was...), but I've never heard of anyone growing
Epipactis species in cultivation?
So I'm assuming it's a wild plant, in which case it must have been a good year at least locally. The only other place I've ever seen
E. helleborine is at the Norfolk Wildlife Trust reserve of Weeting Heath, in the Breckland, where there were four very healthy-looking plants (albeit not yet in flower) in June this year.