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Elegant Cypripedium

Cypripedium elegans

Elegant Cypripedium
Photo: Siddarth Jude Machado, CC BY 4.0
Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Native range
E. Nepal to China (NW. Yunnan)
Climate
temperate

About

Cypripedium elegans is a lady's-slipper orchid found in Nepal, Bhutan, the Indian Himalayas, Tibet, and Yunnan. It grows in thickets, forest margins and humus rich soil in forests.

Other Cypripedium plants

Pink lady's slipper · Ram's head lady's slipper · Lady's-slipper orchid · California lady's slipper · White lady's-slipper · Dickinson's lady's slipper · Clustered lady's slipper · Yellow Cypripedium · Formosa's lady's slipper · Franchet's Cypripedium · Spotted lady's slipper · Henry's Cypripedium

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cypripedium elegans by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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