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Cardinale 'Wilcox'

At NYBG's Orchid Show : 'The Orchid Show: Natural Heritage', now thru April 23, 2023.

 

Phragmipedium

Cardinale 'Wilcox'

ORCHIDACEAE

 

NYBG's annual Orchid Show, now on its 20th year, is designed by acclaimed artist Lily Kwong, which presents a meditative and captivating design inspired by her ancestral connections to the natural world.

Be immerse in a mesmerizing array of orchids, enfolded into rolling mountains throughout the historic Enid A. Haupt Conservatory.

--- nybg.org

 

Similar in many ways to the other slipper orchids, the Paphiopedilums, Phragmipedium is a very popular genus that was establishing by Robert Rolfe in 1896 when he revised all the slipper orchids. Those species native to the tropical Americas were places in other Selenipedium or Phragmipedium. Rolfe named the genus, using the Greek words phragma (fence) in reference to the division of the ovary and pedilon (slipper).

As with the other slipper orchids, the species of this genus are sympodial in growth habit and form tight fans instead of pseudobulbs.

--- aos.org

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