Dactylorhiza fuchsii

Common spotted orchid

Photographed Wiltshire, 19 June 2012

Image number dacfuchsiiepiphyt_1974

In Britain we do not have any truely epiphytic orchids. This photograph is an exception in that the orchid does not seem to have realised that it should be growing in the ground. 

I can only assume that it is being nourished by a fungus that is attacking the tree.