This Siberian C. macranthos was grown from seed obtained from the
Lake Baikal region. The seedling was planted in a pot in the spring of
1994 and is shown here flowering for the first time four years later.
This Siberian C. macranthos was grown from seed obtained from the
Lake Baikal region. The seedling was planted in a pot in the spring of
1994 and is shown here flowering for the first time four years later.
Here is our first
C. acaule seedling to bloom. It was planted in
a mix of perlite and chopped sphagnum peat and required six years to flower.
Six years to flowering is probably inordinately long, for we know a grower
in Vermont who has had a seedling bloom two years after planting-out. The
ruler is six inches long.
Gee... I wonder how long it will take the C. acaule seedling in
the previous photo to reach this size?! This is a spectacularly vigorous
plant grown in cultivation in a Minnesota wild garden.
C.
Xandrewsii is a natural hybrid between C. candidum
and C. parviflorum var. parviflorum. The photo shows a cultivated
plant in Minnesota.
This
C.
californicum seedling required five years after removal from the flask
to produce a single flower. More mature plants of this species have large
numbers of such blooms. For scale, the pot diameter is eight inches.
This
C.
fasciculatum seedling also flowered for the first time five years after
removal from the flask, but at least it produced two flowers. Under good
conditions, wild plants of the clustered lady's-slipper carry up to four
flowers on a stem. The pot is eight inches in diameter.
C.
macranthos var. hotei-atsumorianum. This spectacular plant is
native to the mountains of Japan.