This time we have lunch rather than breakfast at the Esperance Bird and Animal Park. We enjoy the company of friends, Kim and Linda and I enjoy a beer 🙂 After a pleasant catch-up Deb and I decide to go check out one of our favourite orchid haunts, Helms Arboretum (Mud Map SE35). We are hunting the early season species such as the white bunnies, hare and leafless orchids.
After spending around an hour checking various locations, we struck out with the hare and leafless orchids, zero found 🙁
We did however find a few White bunny orchids (Eriochilus dilatatus subsp. dilatatus) in flower. These small orchids commence flowering in April and continue into May over a large coastal range from Lancelin to Israelite Bay. The labellum is usually a cream colour with purple markings, that can range in vividness to almost non-existence.
White bunny orchid (Eriochilus dilatatus subsp. dilatatus) 
Small, hairy, purple marked labellum 
Dorsal sepal forms hood over column 
Spreading, forward projecting lateral sepals 
Up to 7, rarely 10 flowers per inflorescence 
Very small petals, appear as little hands. 
Showing the single leaf growing well up the stem 
Showing habitat found at Helms Arboretum 
Stand up to 350mm in height. 
White lateral sepals
