Mike Ingram, the Reserve Manager, has found two spikes of the Nationally Scarce orchid, Spiranthes romanzoffiana (Irish Lady’s-tresses) on Rum. This is the first record for the vice-county and a plant that I have long hoped to see here as it is in adjacent vice-counties.
Spiranthes romazoffiana on Rum
Local Distruibution – from BSBI Distribution Database
Excellent news on a wet afternoon!
Tags: Plants
Plants of Skye, Raasay & The Small Isles 
July 26, 2014 at 2:11 pm |
Can you comment about the habitat? I wonder if there are any similar habitats on Skye.
July 26, 2014 at 3:00 pm |
On a track across a field…..
July 27, 2014 at 8:08 am |
On Mull I have seen it on old lazy beds. The Mid-Ebudes RPR says “It prefers wet grassland near the sea, usually on gently-sloping ground where the surplus water can run off”. I have seen it in SW Scotand on the stony, partially vegetated shore of a freshwater loch. But NOW is the time to see it!
July 28, 2014 at 8:27 am |
Wow! that’s great. I wonder if they have changed the management of the place where it grows recently, or whether a seed just blew in from somewhere?
July 28, 2014 at 5:47 pm |
I will enquire (re management changes)