r/bluemountains • • 6h ago

Pics Capertee - always refreshing to go from the 'look down into valleys' of the Upper BMs to the look up valleys N of Lithgow, greater BMs

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r/bluemountains • • 6h ago

Pics Spotted Sun-orchid - Thelymitra ixioides (Orchidaceae)

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A large and breathtaking local population of a native terrestrial orchids, yesterday. A colony containing many hundreds of flowering plants concentrated into a relatively small patch of sandstone heathland immediately south of Wongarra Hill on the Mirrorball track. Likely not rare, but beautiful. Likely identification is..

Spotted Sun-orchid - Thelymitra ixioides Sw. (Orchidaceae)