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You can look for it at forest paths and in wooded meadows, greens and ditch banks. It is particularly exciting to find it in a summer evening or in the dusk of night when it gleams white from far away. And then put your nose to it! In bright daylight it can often stay unnoticed for an untrained eye among all the other plants.

The lesser butterfly orchid is very similar to its near relative, the greater butterfly orchid. It is useful to have a flora in your pocket for distinguishing between these two. The difference is as between a violin and a viola. So how different is that …

Old friends of the lady’s slipper and new orchid explorers can go looking for them in the Mahtra boglands with the author every day between June 8 and June 14. Just contact me!

In Mahtra LKA (Nature Protection Area) there are about 20 orchid species