#slipper orchid

[geopsych]

I bought this plant a year ago, a hybrid of two very different slipper orchids. Flowers of this hybrid vary a lot and aren’t always even nice to look at. It’s preparing to bloom now and the suspense is building!

[thebotanicalarcade]

n820_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz.. Gera,Zezschwitz,1903-. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12306754

[fleetingfutures]

yellow lady's slipper // 11 june 2023

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[travelnew]

The slipper orchid

Nepenthes: pitcher plant - It is insectivorous!

I was able to see almost the whole of SGNP on cycle! Not once, but twice! :D Right from the entrance till Kanheri caves and back and exploring all the allowed roads in SGNP.

Slipper orchid and pitcher plants made my day! The common names of the orchid begin with words like splendid & enchanting and it is really true.

We also visited the taxidermy museum, newly opened in SGNP. Entry is free.

Date: 25 September 2022 from 8 am to 1:30 pm.

Entry fee: ~80 for per person + 25 per cycle (owned & not hired). Cycle on hire is around Rs. 80 an hour or two.

Check this out for more cycling fun in and around Mumbai!

VIDEO of flowing water reflecting the morning light.

[9402plantscats]

冬支度

[hankwag93]

Some shots of greater yellow lady’s slipper orchids from a hike on 6/2/23.

[headspace-hotel]

The wonders! The wonders! The wonders!

[vintagehomecollection]

100 Designers' Favorite Rooms, 1994

[thewillowoaklady]

Pink lady slipper orchid

[vandaliatraveler]

The photos above are from a trek to the summit of Bald Knob in Tucker County, West Virginia earlier today. Bald Knob Trail starts in Canaan Valley State Park and crosses into the Monongahela National Forest before returning to the state park. Many people avoid the steep ascent on foot and take a chair lift from the adjacent ski area instead. I manned up today and made the ascent by foot so I could beat the lazy tourists to the overlook. 

From top: the view from Bald Knob toward Weiss Knob and the Canaan Valley State Park ski area; wild geranium (Geranium maculatum), a clumping woodland perennial with gorgeous violet-purple foliage and elegant, sharply-lobed foliage; minniebush (Menziesia pilosa), an Appalachian endemic with distinctive, white-tipped leaves; painted trillium (Trillium undulatum), which has a fondness for shady spots in the strongly-acidic soils of old forests; pink lady’s slipper (Cypripedium acaule), another lover of shady nooks and strongly-acidic soils; and the mysterious depths of the boreal forest at the summit, where Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense) and yellow Clintonia (Clintonia borealis), also known as bluebead lily, form dense colonies in the rich humus.

[geopsych]

New orchid just opened: Paphiopedilum chamberlainianum, alternate name is Paphiopedilum victoria-regina. I think it’s my favorite so far. Unlike the others it’s a sequential bloomer and should keep blooming one or two at a time for months to a year. What a cutie!

[mostlythemarsh]

Oh it's much too early for Lady Slippers... but soon enough. Here's a seed head from last year that's still standing.

[crudlynaturephotos]

[wildflowers-of-southern-ontario]

Showy Lady’s Slipper Cypripedium reginae Orchidaceae

Photographs taken on June 18, 2023, at Purdon Conservation Area, Lanark Highlands, Ontario, Canada.

[dailybotany]

Any chance you could tell me something about this plant?

Found it while hiking in Vermont (in the wooded area around a pond)

Yes! That is a pink ladies slipper (Cypripedium acaule), one of our showiest orchids. In New England, we are just passing the height of their flowering period and they will begin to die back (their two basal leaves stick around for most of the summer though!).

You may have heard about the importance of fungal mutualisms for orchid species, and pink ladies slippers are no exception. These relationships are so crucial to orchids because (unlike most seed plants) their seeds essentially consist of the embryo and the seed coat and are only viable for a short period of time--no store of energy for those babies! This means the parent plant has to put very little energy into their production, but it also means that these embryos are very vulnerable. Mycorrhizal fungi can penetrate the seed cost without damaging the embryo and can provide nutrients for it, essentially nursing the orchid. This is a mutualism because later, once the orchid is grown, it provides a similar service to the fungi.

Pink ladies slippers rely on the presence of fungi in the genus Rhizoctonia for this vital part of their life cycle.

You can read more about this wonderful and charismatic plant here!