Post by fredg on Apr 26, 2012 11:00:50 GMT -5
Cypripedium guttatum (The Spotted Lady's slipper), is found in North Western Canada, Alaska,the Aluetians to Japan, Central and Eastern Russia, Mongolia, Korea, China,the Eastern Himalayas and Bhutan in open birch forests, open grasslands and woodlands at elevations of 1000 - 4100 metres where it grows as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a pubescent stem carrying two subopposing, elliptical to elliptic-ovate, pubescent in veins below, glabrous above, blue green, acute to acuminate leaves. It blooms in the later spring and early summer on a slender stalked, terminal, densely glandular-pubescent 2.8 - 5.2" (7 - 13 cm) long single flowered inflorescence with the flower subtended by a ciliate, leafy bract.
One of the most widespread of the genus, recognised by its subopposing two leaves and the white flower with purple spots with narrowly ovate petals and a distinctive urceolate lip.
This orchid I find is very hardy and I also find it one of the easier Cypripedium to grow.
Mine appears to enjoy being quite wet.
Cypripedium guttatum
One of the most widespread of the genus, recognised by its subopposing two leaves and the white flower with purple spots with narrowly ovate petals and a distinctive urceolate lip.
This orchid I find is very hardy and I also find it one of the easier Cypripedium to grow.
Mine appears to enjoy being quite wet.
Cypripedium guttatum
