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Ophrys omegaifera subsp. omegaifera
A wild European and Aegean terrestrial orchid that flowers very early in spring, with small bee-like blooms. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, and it needs a cool, dry summer dormancy and a well-drained, low-nutrient soil to thrive.
Ophrys omegaifera subsp. omegaifera, synonym Ophrys apollonae (the Apollona bee-orchid), is a subspecies of orchid native to France, Greece, Crete, the East Aegean Islands and Turkey. Very early flowering forms native to Greece, the East Aegean Islands and Turkey have been distinguished as Ophrys apollonae. They usually have a shorter stem and with one (more rarely two) small flowers, with length just above 1 cm, and a lip 11.7 – 13.7 mm long, much smaller than that of Ophrys omegaifera var. basilissa, which is also a very early flowering plant. As of December 2023, Plants of the World Online treated Ophrys apollonae as a synonym of Ophrys omegaifera subsp. omegaifera.
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