Hybrid Orchis - Orchis x colemanii ( Orchis mascula x O. pauciflora) This is a natural hybrid between Early purple orchid (O. mascula) and few flowered orchid (O. pauciflora). The intermediates range from magenta close to the O macula parent through a range of bi-coloured forms in pink/magenta with yellow to white with delicate spotting and colouring, The variations in shape of the orchid flowers includes contributions from both parents.

Here the plants are growng above Preci, Sibillini, Umbria, Italy May 2021