Saturday, April 15/2023

 

Cyprus is well known for its orchids and a number of groups organise orchid walks spotting them. Sources vary - sometimes considerably - but a typical one says that Cyprus is home to fifty-two species of orchid, thirty-three of them in the North.

Mountain walk not required to spot this one as it was in a friend’s garden - along with other delights of the subtropical Mediterranean climate including lemon, blood orange, avocado, fig, loquat, and apricot trees. Not a full list and always something in season.

*Orchid in photo recently re-identified as bearded iris 🤷‍♀️. Still beautiful though.