NZ Native Orchid.

Today we went to the area of the Boyle up the Lewis Pass to look for native orchids in the bush.
We found three varieties. This is one of them, I have not looked up its name at this stage. They are very small.
It was beautiful being out in nature and listening to the birds.
We then called at Hanmer to look at a photographic Exhibition by David Sutton in B&W and Colour on stones of England and Europe. It was excellent.

Thanks to TonyG, I think it will be this species.


White Fingers
Caladenia lyallii
Syn: Stegostyla lyallii

Flowers November - January
Found in high altitude scrub and
grasslands in the north, and also
in beech forests in the south. White
flowers with red bars on the labellum
side-lobes, lamina and inner column.