Can someone identify this for me please?

[Littlebluebellwoods]

This has suddenly sprouted in one of my pots, I didn’t plant it. I was thinking maybe ledebouria, but the make up of the bud formation is making me also think wild orchid.

the oddest thing though, I took this pic and literally went two mins later to photo the bud more closely and it’s disappeared, like the plant has pulled it back in. If you zoom in you can see the little green fan like bud, which is coming from in between the leaves surround it .

any keen gardeners got any idea please?

I think that might be an orchid if some kind.

I would have said wild orchid too.

It’s weird, it is a pot I grow agapanthus in, and this has suddenly appeared. The more I google the more I think it’s a little wild orchid too. Hmmm

Wow! Common spotted, I think, with those oblong spots going across the leaves. Dactylorhiza fuchsii. Very jealous.

The green fan-like thing in the centre is a leaf bud that’s blown in from elsewhere

DH thinks you have two rosettes there. Even better!

Wow I’m really impressed he spotted two. I gently repotted last night and there is indeed two. The root system said definitely orchids . Will google both those types..

Orchids require a specific mycorrhizal fungi group in the soil if they are to thrive so make sure you try to take as much of what they growing in with them when you pot them.

I'm very jealous.

Thank you, it’s the same soil.

It’s really weird they just popped up in a pot, as said its a pot I grow agapanthus in and we kept peering at them as we went by wondering what it was. When I dug them out I saw they were definitely orchids as you can see by the roots.

part of the garden is ancient woodland though and we do have wild bluebells etc. so I guess if they were going to show anywhere they would be here, but it’s a first for us.

they were definitely orchids as you can see by the roots. The name is from the Greek for testicle (orchiditis is inflammation of the testicles) because of the appearance of the roots.

The Green winged orchid is known in Portuguese as Testiculo de Cão, or Dogs’ bollocks.

Will google both those types Both which types? I’ve missed the reference to something other than Common Spotted Orchid

Yes sorry , I realised on googling that it was the same plant, Latin name and then common name.

and ha! On the testicles..every day is a school day. I shall never look at an orchid root the same…

they seemed to perk up a bit today, must have liked being repotted..