Orchids

A great example of a plant that was recently in flower along Link Track, is a native orchid that you can see in a couple of places, growing in the trunks of tree ferns.

The Vic Flora website (www.vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au) identifies the orchid in the first photo as Corybas grumulus, one of the Helmet Orchids, and cites the plant is registered as endangered.

The second orchid is Pterostylis pedunculata, Maroonhood orchid.

Found in mountain forests of eastern Victoria, often in fern gullies and wet sclerophyll forests growing in rich mountain loam or on rotting logs or tree fern trunks.