A dancing spider orchid (#Corybas acuminatus) surveys the land in front of it.

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I went looking for orchids in the bush. I found so many orchids I stopped taking photos of them. They were all over the place!

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Another dancing spider orchid (#Corybas acuminatus) sits on a bed of pipe cleaner moss in the Kaimai.

I’ve done some quick and clumsy editing on my iPhone.

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Dancing spider orchid (#Corybas acuminatus) looking magnificent in a beam of sunlight
Found a little dancing spider orchid (#Corybas acuminatus) in the bush.

This is a month and a half earlier than the one I found last year, but it hasn’t yet come into its mature form with a flower and spider legs.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/233234717
dancing spider orchid (Corybas acuminatus)

dancing spider orchid from Kaimai-Mamaku Conservation Park, Kaimai-Mamaku Forest Park, Waikato, NZ on July 28, 2024 at 02:50 PM by stephen-ao. I was hoping to find a spider orchid, so this has probably played with my identification. But the...

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A rather delicate dancing spider orchard (#Corybas acuminatus) sleeping on a bed of moss. This is a native #Aotearoa #orchid . First time I’ve seen one! I’d stopped to get a photo of the moss and then noticed what appeared to be a spider or crane fly waving at me.

#iNaturalist #Canon #waving

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/183320678
Spider Orchids (Genus Corybas)

Spider orchids from North Island, Matamata, Waikato, NZ on September 15, 2023 at 10:23 AM by stephen-ao

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