Paphiopedilum Orchids

Lady Slipper Orchid Paphiopedilum Recovery

Paphiopedilum Recovery is a terrestrial growing lady slipper orchid hybrid, a crossing between Paphiopedilum sukhakulii (seed parent) and Paphiopedilum philippinense (pollen parent). The orchid hybrid has been registered with the Royal Horticultural Society by D’Lin in the year 1974. Flowers of Paphiopedilum Recovery get a width of about 13 cm. Flowering period: Spring – Summer. Read More »

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Lady Slipper Orchid Paphiopedilum Vanguard

Paphiopedilum Vanguard is a primary lady slipper orchid hybrid, a crossing between the Paph. species orchids Paphiopedilum glaucophyllum (seed parent) and Paphiopedilum rothschildianum (pollen parent). Paphiopedilum Vanguard has been developed and registered with the Royal Horticultural Society by Pitt in the year 1921. The multi-flowered inflorescences of the terrestrially growing lady slipper orchid hybrid carry Read More »

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Lady Slipper Orchid Paphiopedilum Coro Oro

Paphiopedilum Coro Oro is a lady slipper orchid hybrid, a crossing between the hybrids Paphiopedilum Donna Hanes (seed parent) and Paphiopedilum Raukituri Gold (pollen parent). Paphiopedilum Coro Oro has been registered with the Royal Horticultural Society in the year 2006 by Woodstream Orchids, an orchid nursery located in Huntingtown, in Maryland’s beautiful Calvert County. The Read More »

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Lady Slipper Orchid Paphiopedilum Doitung Emerald

Paphiopedilum Doitung Emerald is a Thai Lady Slipper Orchid hybrid, a crossing between the hybrids Paphiopedilum Vert (seed parent) and Paphiopedilum Maudiae (pollen parent). The stunning bright green Paphiopedilum Doitung Emerald has been registered with the Royal Horticultural Society by the Mae Fah Luang Foundation (Chiang Rai province, North Thailand) in the year 2012. Mae Read More »

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Lady Slipper Orchid  Paphiopedilum Schaetzchen

Paphiopedilum Schaetzchen is a lady slipper orchid hybrid, a crossing between Paphiopedilum Maudiae (Paphiopedilum callosum x Paphiopedilum lawrenceanum) (seed parent) and Paphiopedilum charlesworthii (pollen parent). The terrestrial growing Paphiopedilum Schaetzchen has been registered with the Royal Horticultural Society in the year 1974 by Adolf Röhl (1910-1990), the founder of the German orchid nursery Orchideen Röhl Read More »

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Lady Slipper Orchid Paphiopedilum purpuratum

Paphiopedilum purpuratum (Lindl.) Stein 1892 is a terrestrial or lithophytic growing lady slipper orchid species, native to South-East China (Yunnan), North Myanmar (formerly Burma) and Vietnam. In its natural habitat the plant grows at elevations from 1200 to 1500 meters in leaf litter, preferably in bamboo forests or on mossy cliffs. This environment is characterized Read More »

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Paphiopedilum Vanda M. Pearman

Paphiopedilum Vanda M. Pearman is a lady slipper orchid hybrid, a crossing between the species orchids Paphiopedilum bellatulum (seed parent), native to Thailand and Paphiopedilum delenatii (pollen parent), native to Vietnam. The primary orchid hybrid Paphiopedilum Vanda M. Pearman has been registered with the Royal Horticultural Society in the year 1939 by S.Farnes. This stunning, Read More »

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Paphiopedilum philippinense (Rchb.f) Stein 1892 is a terrestrial, occasionally epiphytic growing, large lady slipper orchid species, native to the Philippines. Primarily the lady slipper orchid has been named by the German botanist Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823-1889) in 1862 as Cypripedium philippinense, which is the basionym for the tropical plant, in 1892 the German botanist and Read More »

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Lady Slipper Orchid Hybrid Paphiopedilum Dollgoldi

Paphiopedilum Dollgoldi is a primary lady slipper orchid hybrid, a crossing from Paphiopedilum rothschildianum (seed parent) and Paphiopedilum armeniacum (pollen parent). The golden-yellow, red striped lady slipper orchid hybrid has been registered with the Royal horticultural Society in 1988 by H.Doll. The terrestrial growing Paphiopedilum Dollgoldi requires cool temperatures and bright, diffuse light to partial Read More »

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Lady Slipper Orchid Paphiopedilum argus

The name of the lady slipper orchid Paphiopedilum argus (Rchb. f.) Stein 1892 refers, because of the black-spotted petals, to the Greek myth of Argus (Argus Panoptes), a hundred eyed giant, guardian of the heifer-nymph Io. Paphiopedilum argus is native to the island of Luzon, Philippines, where the terrestrial growing lady slipper orchid was found Read More »

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Lady Slipper Orchid Paphiopedilum spicerianum

Paphiopedilum spicerianum (Rchb.f) Pfitzer 1888 is a terrrestrial, sometimes lithophytic growing lady slipper orchid species, native to the Himalayas, India (Assam), Bhutan, Myanmar (formerly Burma) and China (Yunnan). Paphiopedilum spicerianum orchids grow preferably on limestone cliffs at elevations of 300 – 2000 meters. The multiflowered inflorescences reach a length up to about 40 cm. Flowers Read More »

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Paphiopedilum appletonianum var aureum

Paphiopedilum appletonianum (Gower) Rolfe 1896 is a terrestrial or lithophytic growing Lady Slipper Orchid native to China, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. The tropical lady slipper orchid was primarily classified by the English botanist William Hugh Gower (1835 – 1894) as Cypripedium appletonianum in 1893 and named in honour to the English orchid enthusiast W.M. Read More »

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Paphiopedilum callosum var. thailandense

As we found the Lady Slipper Orchid Paphiopedilum callosum (Rchb. f.) Pfitzer 1895 at an orchid exhibition in our hometown Chiang Mai, North Thailand, the orchid was labeled as Paphiopedilum thailandense Fowlie, which isn`t an accepted name. The terrestrial or lithophytic growing lady slipper orchid is a variety of Phapiopedilum callosum found in South Thailand Read More »

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Lady Slipper orchid hybrid Paphiopedilum Rosita

Paphiopedilum Rosita is a terrestrial growing Lady Slipper orchid hybrid, a crossing from Paphiopedilum callosum (seed parent) and Paphiopedilum charlesworthii (pollen parent). Paphiopedilum Rosita has been registered by Hugh Low with the Royal Horticultural Society in the year 1902. Hugh Low (1824 – 1905) was a British colonial administrator on the Malay Peninsula and a Read More »

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Lady Slipper Orchid Paphiopedilum Honey

Paphiopedilum Honey is a terrestrially growing lady slipper orchid hybrid, a crossing from Paphiopedilum philippinense and Paphiopedilum primulinum var. alba. Paphiopedilum Honey is an easy-to-grow lady slipper orchid with multiple flowers, which reach a width up to about 20 cm. © The Foodist Image: Lady Slipper Orchid Paphiopedilum Honey

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