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| Genre: Plants |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2005-05-28 |
| Categories: Flowers |
| Camera: Nikon Coolpix 4500 |
| Exposure: f/5.3, 30 seconds |
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| Date Submitted: 2005-05-30 23:09 |
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Calypso bulbosa -- Fairyslipper
General: Perennial from a round or oval, bulb-like corm; stems delicate, yellow-purple to brown-purple, covered in membranous sheathing bracts, 10-25 cm long.
Leaves: Single, dark-green, produced at top of corm in fall and persistent through winter, withering in summer, broadly egg-shapped, mostly 3-6 cm long.
Flowers: Rose-purple, large, showy, solitary, with a sweet fragrance, 3 sepals and 2 petals (narrow, pointed and twisted) sit erect above the lip; lower lip large, slipper-like, yellow to whiteish, streaked and spotted with purple, with a cluster of golden hairs above and a spotted, double spur below the lip.
Fruits: Erect cpsule about 1 cm long.
Ecology: Mostly in forests, often in soil rich with leaf mould; lowlands to middle elevations; rate in southeast Alaska, where usually near beaches in dense forest.
Notes: This beautiful (and deliciously perfumed) little orchid, although widespread, is rapidly being exterminated in populated areas due to trampling and especially picking. The corms are attached by means of delicate roots that are easily broken even by the lightest tug on the stem. Hence, when the flower is picked, the plant usually dies. § Calypso, the goddess daughter of Atlas, was Homer's beautifiul nymph hidden in the weeds and found by Ulysses when he was wrecked on the island of Ogygia. Calypso means 'concealment.' Other common name include Cytherea, Venus slipper, hider-of-the-north, pink slipper-orchid, and false ladyslipper. Cytherea is another name for Aphrodite: the goddess of love, beauty and marriage. |
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