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Known today from only three sites in the UK, this very rare orchid was thought to be extinct until it was re-discovered in May 1947, and is subject to extensive site management and protection. Despite this, two of these sites have public access, at an open day on the Rex Graham reserve in Suffolk, and at Homefield Wood in the Chilterns, where careful visitors are welcome. Individual plants are protected by metal cages to prevent rabbits and deer grazing them.
(Rex Graham is the man who found 25 flower spikes of Ghost Orchid outside Marlow in 1953.)