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Shanxi Cypripedium

Cypripedium shanxiense

Also called Shanxi Lady's Slipper, Shanxi Lady’s Slipper

Shanxi Cypripedium
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Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Bulb
Native range
China to Sakhalin and N. Japan
Climate
temperate

About

Cypripedium shanxiense is a species of Cypripedium. It is found in China, northern Japan and the Russian Far East.

The internal structure of mature seeds is simple, there are internal and external double-layered skin, no endosperm; the embryo body is a spherical embryo.

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 · Elegant Cypripedium · Clustered lady's slipper · Yellow Cypripedium · Formosa's lady's slipper · Franchet's Cypripedium · Spotted lady's slipper

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cypripedium shanxiense 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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