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Cypripedium calceolus
Yellow Lady’s-slipper
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Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
ID: 0000 0000 0724 0216 (2024-07-06)Copyright © 2024 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
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date of photo Jun 5, 2024
latitude 46.41000 longitude 13.55000
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location
East of Sella Nevea pass, West Julian Alps (Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, Italy)family
Orchidaceae
notes Slo.: lepi čeveljc - syn.: Calceolus alternifolius St.-Lag., Calceolus marianus Crantz, Cypripedilon marianus (Crantz) Rouy, Cypripedium atsmori C. Morren, Cypripedium microsaccos Kraenzl. - Habitat: Alpine valley, riparian forest; flat, calcareous terrain, in shade; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 6-8 deg C, elevations about 1.000 m (3.300 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: soil. - Comments (pertain to pictures in Flicker album Cypripedium-calceolus - II): It is always a happy experience to come across this largest wild-growing orchid in Europe! Its unusually shaped flowers, up to 10 cm in size, are something special. The shape of its big, yellow lip, a real trap for insects, serves as a complex method of pollination. The plant is rare, the number of known sites is declining in most European countries, and this beauty is irresistibly disappearing there. However, fortunately, it is still common in sparsely populated areas in, for example, Sweden, Russia, and some parts of Asia. Cypripedium calceolus is one of the few protected plants that is mostly threatened by over-collection for centuries apart of forestry industry. It often proliferates vegetatively and therefore appears in beautiful groups of many plants displaying ten and more flowers. In England it was (erroneously) believed to be extinct by the early 20th century. Today, the last known locations, which are carefully kept secret from the public, are actively guarded by security guards during the flowering period. The human greed to 'have for oneself' is irresistible. - Ref.: (1) https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ladys-slipper-orchid-in-england (accessed July 6. 2024) (2) A. Martinči et al., Mala Flora Slovenije, Tehnična Založba Slovenije (2007), p 762. (3) P. Delforge, Orchids of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, 3rd Edition, A&C Black Publishers (2006), London, p 37. (4) H. Baumann, S. Künkele, R. Lorentz, Orchideen Europas, Mit angrenzenden Gebieten, Ulmer (2006), p 25.camera Honor X8b
contributor's ID # Bot_1583/2024_IMG_134232 photo category: Plant - annual/perennial
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