A Lady Slipper Standing Tall
Alien-looking Lady Slippers beg the question of how strange flowers from another planet might be. While this Paph comes from right here on Earth, it looks like something from a sci-fi movie. It’s an unidentified hybrid that I bought a few years ago in a grocery store. These photos show various angles of this wondrous flower.
That amazing 6 inch (15 cm) wide bloom stands on a stem over 1 foot (30 cm) tall. So far, I’ve only coaxed a single flower out of the plant at one time, but it usually lasts more than two months in good condition. This Paph also has marvelous mottled leaves, visible in the third row of photos. Its light green and dark green variegation makes it a very attractive plant, even without its alien blossom. I can only guess what its ancestry could be, but I suspect that one parent is Paphiopedilum sukhakulii. And maybe the other parent is from a different galaxy.
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