Disa cooperi next to a pine forest

These flourishing Disa cooperi plants have lush, pointed, blue-green leaves below their inflorescences. At the top there are pale, yellow-green floral bracts around the buds not yet open. The flowers are near white, a little faint yellow and purple may be seen or imagined.

Living on the fringe of a pine plantation, these orchids may have a good long life in their humanly modified surroundings. If the tubers are not disturbed by digging, ploughing or compacting by traffic, annual re-appearance of the above-ground components is not in jeopardy (Pooley, 1998; Manning, 2009).