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Early Purple Orchid, Orchis mascula

Photo taken Locality: Greece, Thessaly, Larissa, Kalyvia
Photo taken by:
Trichas, A.
Photo taken date:
February 2007

Early Purple Orchid

Plants

Plants

Mixed forest of continental Greece diorama

Deciduous forest ecosystem

Photo of Early Purple Orchid, Orchis mascula, in full bloom at Olympus mt, in Greece. A flour named saleb is made from grinding the dried tubers of this orchid.

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