Collections made by Iain Darbyshire

Erect annual herb, delicate pink flowers with pale yellow throat.

Shrub to 2.5 m tall. Leaves silvery beneath. Flowers yellow; young fruits green, turning brown with maturity.

Terrestrial orchid to c. 30 cm tall, largely leafless; swollen white rootstock. Tepals pink, short rounded spur yellowish, throat white with mauve speckling, labellum with brownish central area.

Small tree to 3 m tall, dense foliage on lateral branches. Male flowers minute, red-green.

Erect or pendulous branches on shaded riverbank.

Shrub to 2.5 m tall, widely branched. Leaves sticky when pressed, glossy. In bud only, green.

Small tree or shrub, up to 3 m tall. Collected previously in bud only, here in full flower. Corolla white, 4-lobed, 4 long-exserted white stamens.

Untidily branched perennial herb. Bracts green turning brown. Corolla white, stamens not exserted. Mostly past flowering at this time of year.

Shrub to 3 m tall. Petals cream-coloured, woolly within; stamens yellow.

Pendulous stems growing from rock crevices, some young stems spiny. Fruits white, fleshy.

Erect terrestrial orchid to 60 cm tall with swollen ovoid tuber, strongly angular stems. Bracts green in lower portion, turning white distally. Tepals pale green externally, white within, labellum 2-lobed with broad central notch, yellow centrally.

Herb to 2 m. Corolla pale mauve; filaments green-white, anthers yellow.

Tree to 20 m tall with stilt roots; dense dark green foliage. Fruits yellow-green speckled brown, turning pale brown.

Slender perennial herb with tuberous vertical root, wiry branches. Flower buds yellow, open flowers sky blue.