Steve's Orchids now updated for 2015

A busy summer for me with 75 orchid site visits, 24 of which were new for me. I only added 5 new species to my viewed list, but it was always going to get harder once the commoner species had been ticked off. However, for me, the highlight was the discovery of perhaps a novel and unique plant; a Broad-leaved Helleborine not only devoid of the pink and purple pigments which give the flowers their colours, but also deficient in chlorophyll. The result is a totally straw coloured plant that must be parasitic on the root fungi that it normally associates with