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Specific Families and Genera => Pleione and Orchidaceae => Topic started by: johanneshoeller on May 31, 2010, 07:20:07 PM

Title: Cypripedium calceolus in the wild
Post by: johanneshoeller on May 31, 2010, 07:20:07 PM

Sid, Brian and I have visited some Cypripedium calceolus near my house. It was a wonderful day.
The flowers are so different.

Title: Re: Cypripedium calceolus in the wild
Post by: johanneshoeller on May 31, 2010, 07:21:37 PM

Part 2:

Title: Re: Cypripedium calceolus in the wild
Post by: Maggi Young on May 31, 2010, 07:27:47 PM

Wonderful variation in these cyps as there are in your primula photos, Hans....how valuable it is to see the range of variation there is in the wild, even in one area... fascinating! Thank you!
 

Title: Re: Cypripedium calceolus in the wild
Post by: LarsB on May 31, 2010, 09:27:29 PM

Truely beautiful pictures, Hans. There's a very small population in Denmark, but it is fantastic to see it growing in such large numbers. Thakns for posting.

Title: Re: Cypripedium calceolus in the wild
Post by: Maren on May 31, 2010, 11:27:08 PM

Wonderful pictures, Johannes, you are fortunate to live in the proximity of such beauties and in such numbers. Breathtaking. thank you for showing them.

Title: Re: Cypripedium calceolus in the wild
Post by: partisangardener on June 02, 2010, 09:33:46 PM

Beautyfull Johannes.
Today I was invited to a place in northern Bavaria (Franken) There I saw my first yellow  one
There were thousands this day in three different places, much variations, but only one true yellow.

Title: Re: Cypripedium calceolus in the wild
Post by: partisangardener on June 02, 2010, 10:04:59 PM

This one was not that rare.

Title: Re: Cypripedium calceolus in the wild
Post by: Anthony Darby on June 02, 2010, 10:36:11 PM

I love Franken, having stayed a couple of times in Forchheim and once in Muggendorf.

Title: Re: Cypripedium calceolus in the wild
Post by: partisangardener on June 06, 2010, 11:16:14 AM

The longer I live there the more I like it. :D
Yesterday I visited the last place again, this time sunshine.