Western Spotted Coralroot

[ronaldhanko]

Photographed in Derby Canyon near Peshastin, Washington:



Native Orchids of the Pacific Northwest and the Canadian Rockies: Corallorhiza maculata in Derby Canyon

[Paul]

Give your wife my compliments. Very nice pic and lovely color on those. Too bad I'll likely never see these at a show. It's about the only way I'd be likely to see these in person. I do find it intriguing that a plant which grows completely underground (with the obvious exception of the flowers) still produces pigmented flowers.

[WhiteRabbit]

nice find - beautiful photos!

[ronaldhanko]

Thanks, Paul and White Rabbit - Paul these do not really grow underground through they have a kind of rhizome or root mass that resembles coral. They are leafless and saprophytic, but with the exception of the "coralroot" they are above ground. They are weird plants, though, they'll be in one place one year and in a different place the next year, abundant in one place one year and nothing there the next.

[Tindomul]

Great stuff! I got to go to the Mts of the west some day!

[ronaldhanko]

If you come out our way, I'll be glad to show you around.

[RosieC]

I always look with excitement at any thread with the world Coralroot in the title that comes from you Ron and this one does not disappoint.

[JaneEyre]

Nice. I took a picture of the same plant at Sequoia National park. Very interesting plant. I have a picture of it on my website as well, although it isn't as good of a picture as yours. Nice shooting.

[ronaldhanko]

Thanks, Rosie. My wife took this picture, and Jane, very nice website with excellent photos and great work on the identifications. I want to go back and look more carefully but it appeared to me that you nailed most if not all of them.

[JaneEyre]

Thanks Ron. If you see any discrepancies on my site, feel free to let me know. Thanks for looking we don't get a lot of traffic so it's always nice to know someone has checked it out