Red Helleborine
Height: 15-65
Colour: Pink
Flowering: May to July
Soil type: Limestone to slightly acidic

These elegant orchids have relatively large flowers openly dispersed along a tall stem each with a narrow leaf bract at its base. The main leaves are not in a ground rosette as with many orchids, but are attached to the flower stem. The flowers have long slender pink sepals and petals, the central lip has a white centre. (There is no spur on the back of the flower as with the orchis species)

They grow in the shade or semi shade of woodlands on limestone to slightly acidic soils, to an altitude of 2000m.

These images of orchids were taken in Southern Spain, many terrestrial species are widespread from the Iberian peninsular eastwards through the Mediterranean region.

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