One orchid, drawn from the forest floor.
Calanthe plantaginea is a ground orchid of the Himalayan hills. It grows in shaded, damp forest, puts up broad leaves like a plantain, and in spring sends up a single stem of pale lilac flowers. We put that stem down the centre of the tee, life-size in spirit, and wrote its field note on the back.
- Name
- Calanthe plantaginea
- Common
- Plantain-leaf calanthe
- Habit
- Terrestrial orchid
- Range
- Himalayan forests
- Bloom
- Spring