Cypripedium x columbianum

Cypripedium xcolumbianum, as the “x” suggests, is a natural hybrid of Cyp. parviflorum and Cyp. montanum and is known only from Washington and British Columbia, where it can be quite common. In plant and flower size and flower form it resembles its parents, but the color of the lip is distinctive, neither the white lip of Cypripedium montanum nor the yellow lip of Cypripedium parviflorum, but off-white to cream. Its sepals and petals are greenish, more or less marked with mahogany, but it is in that respect no different from the parents. When we’ve found it, it has been growing with Cyp. montanum or with both parents.

Posted on March 6, 2024 04:13 PM by ronaldhanko