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Three Birds Orchids - 2025 Around our property in Hiawassee, Georgia |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2025) |
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Three Birds Orchids - 2025 Around our property in Hiawassee, Georgia |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2025) |
| July 22, 2025 Once again, July 22nd (my sister Alison's birthday) was the date for the year's first flowering of the Three Birds Orchids in our woods. |
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| Three Birds Orchid (Triphora trianthophoros) |
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| Three Birds Orchids I love the color variation in the flowers that we see in this population. |
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| Three Birds Orchid |
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| Three Birds Orchid |
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| Everything from white to shades of pink and magenta... |
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| Three Birds Orchid |
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| A nice grouping of Triphora trianthophoros |
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| Three Birds Orchid - straight on |
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| Three Birds Orchid |
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| Nice coloring |
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| Three Birds Orchid |
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| 2 - August 2, 2025 The second 2025 synchronous bloom of the Three Birds Orchids on our property; naturally I had to take more photos. It had been 11 days since the first bloom, which is one of the longest spans between initial flowerings that I've witnessed, so there may have been a very small flowering in between that I missed. I tried to get more groupings than I usually shoot. |
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| A nice group of blooms... |
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| Three Birds Orchid |
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| A pretty trio... |
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| And a lovely pair! |
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| Three Birds Orchid (Triphora trianthophora) |
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| A vertical group of TBO flowers |
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| Another pair |
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| Another pair of TBO flowers |
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| That's a pretty grouping... |
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| Three Birds Orchid |
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| Another "three-fer"... |
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| Three Birds Orchid |
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| And another nice little group |
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