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Specific Families and Genera => Pleione and Orchidaceae => Topic started by: yijiawang on June 11, 2007, 10:38:36 AM

Title: Cypripedium and others on mountain in Beijing China
Post by: yijiawang on June 11, 2007, 10:38:36 AM

I hiked and found some orchids on mountain, astonished. attach the pictures for you.

Title: Re: Cypripedium and others on mountain in Beijing China
Post by: yijiawang on June 11, 2007, 10:43:21 AM

post go on

Title: Re: Cypripedium and others on mountain in Beijing China
Post by: yijiawang on June 11, 2007, 10:49:13 AM

go on

Title: Re: Cypripedium and others on mountain in Beijing China
Post by: yijiawang on June 11, 2007, 11:02:50 AM

go on and end

Title: Re: Cypripedium and others on mountain in Beijing China
Post by: Rob on June 11, 2007, 12:26:43 PM

Thank you for the photos

It's always nice seeing orchids

Rob

Title: Re: Cypripedium and others on mountain in Beijing China
Post by: Thomas Huber on June 11, 2007, 12:37:11 PM

Great plant photos!

If you have, I would like to see some landscape-photos, too!

Many thanks

Title: Re: Cypripedium and others on mountain in Beijing China
Post by: ellenndan on June 11, 2007, 07:35:00 PM

Love the photos, would love to know what the Paris especially the dark leaf one.
Thanks Ellen and Dan

Title: Re: Cypripedium and others on mountain in Beijing China
Post by: Paddy Tobin on June 11, 2007, 11:30:16 PM

Yijiawang,

Wonderful, wonderful photographs... a delight to see them...many thanks for posting them on the forum.

Question: what is the tree/shrub in the photograph before the pulsatilla (I think) seedheads?

Anemone aconitifolium is also in full flower here in the garden. It grows very well here.

Looking forward to more of your photographs.

Paddy

Title: Re: Cypripedium and others on mountain in Beijing China
Post by: yijiawang on June 12, 2007, 04:52:02 PM

Thank you!

to Thomas Huber, please check attachment for landscape-photo,ca.800~2000m

to Ellen and Dan, there is Paris verticillata in Beijing only, dark leaves can not be sure it is jarless, because it is broken when I find it.

to Paddy Tobin, thank you, it is Schisartdra chirtensis belong to Magnoliales，a climber, so it's flower looks like a little Magnolia flower.the Anemone maybe named Anemone narcissiflora,back of petal is blue.

Title: Re: Cypripedium and others on mountain in Beijing China
Post by: Armin on June 12, 2007, 06:27:27 PM

Great pictures, Yijiawang.
Like the Aquilegias.

Title: Re: Cypripedium and others on mountain in Beijing China
Post by: Paddy Tobin on June 12, 2007, 11:53:35 PM

Many thanks, Yijiawang,

Beautiful photographs.

Paddy

Title: Re: Cypripedium and others on mountain in Beijing China
Post by: shelagh on June 13, 2007, 05:18:00 PM

What a mouthwatering collection.  I can't even hazard a guess at what some of them are.  Wonderful, thank you.

Shelagh

Title: Re: Cypripedium and others on mountain in Beijing China
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 13, 2007, 10:15:02 PM

What a wonderful collection of plants and just about all new to me. Thank you so much for sharing them Yijiawang. I hope you'll add many more over time.

Title: Re: Cypripedium and others on mountain in Beijing China
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 13, 2007, 10:23:26 PM

In the last batch of 10, what is the bright red flower? Is it a Primula? and if so, which is it?

Title: Re: Cypripedium and others on mountain in Beijing China
Post by: Susan Band on June 14, 2007, 08:03:41 AM

Lesley, the primula is Primula maximowiczii. It has been available most years lately on the SRGC seed exchange and is appearing at the shows both on the benches and sales tables. I am growing it for commercial seed so it will prob. be more generally in the trade in a few years. It is relatively easy to grow if you can grow other primulas and flowers at the same time as Prim rosea. Sometimes it can be slightly duller but most of the time it is that brilliant red.

Title: Re: Cypripedium and others on mountain in Beijing China
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 15, 2007, 03:13:37 AM

Thanks Susan, I'll really look forward to that one.

Title: Re: Cypripedium and others on mountain in Beijing China
Post by: yijiawang on June 15, 2007, 12:30:39 PM

Thanks Susan, Primula maximowiczii got fragrance like rose.

Title: Re: Cypripedium and others on mountain in Beijing China
Post by: Susan Band on June 15, 2007, 05:22:47 PM

Thanks for showing us it growing in the wild. Do you or anyone else know what photo no. 48 is?
It has heart shaped leaves but a smilacina type flower.

Title: Re: Cypripedium and others on mountain in Beijing China
Post by: Maggi Young on June 15, 2007, 05:35:45 PM

You mean this one, Susan?
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I think it may be a Maianthemum ?... maybe M. bifolium.....  not sure where that grows in China!

Title: Re: Cypripedium and others on mountain in Beijing China
Post by: Anthony Darby on June 16, 2007, 12:21:44 AM

I've got a Chinese lantern in my rockery and it grows near that. Does that count? ::)

Title: Re: Cypripedium and others on mountain in Beijing China
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 16, 2007, 03:51:52 AM

M. bifolium certainly has a heart-shaped leaf but is it as tall as this? Mine is only about 6cms high in total. (I see RHS Dictionary of Gardening says 4-8 ins, i.e. 10-20 cms)

Title: Re: Cypripedium and others on mountain in Beijing China
Post by: rob krejzl on June 16, 2007, 06:03:17 AM

Lesley,

The scale of those in the attached link (http://www.asianflora.com/Convallariaceae/Maianthemum-bifolium.htm)  seems similar.

Title: Re: Cypripedium and others on mountain in Beijing China
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 17, 2007, 12:39:18 AM

Thanks Rob, as always. Boy that little plant has sure travelled around the world hasn't it? Native in so many places, it's surprising how little variation there is.

Title: Re: Cypripedium and others on mountain in Beijing China
Post by: yijiawang on June 18, 2007, 10:49:15 AM

to Susan, Maggi Young is right, Maianthemum bifolium, Chinese name means  red-crowned crane is dancing.