Coralroot

It was a treat this morning to get outside and head up Mt Lemmon for a quest. A few of us have been waiting for it to be orchid season again and today we set out to discover if the coralroot was in bloom. Before we even finished parking we saw the red stems highlighted by the sunlight slanting through the Ponderosas. There was quite a large community of orchids, but they had only just started to bloom.

I’m definitely out of practice on close-ups and at this range there’s very little depth of field. Still I managed to get a couple of photos with the flowers in focus! Enjoy.

One of many groups of orchids.

Corallorhiza, or coralroot, just beginning to bloom on Mt Lemmon.

The first flowers on this coralroot.