Here's a few pictures of a group of flowers growing in the woods near our house.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/paphreek/Cypsunny1.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/paphreek/Cypparviflorum2.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/paphreek/Cypgroup1.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/paphreek/Cypgroup2.jpg

Beautiful! It is my favorite Cyp species.

Very nice!!!!

That is so fabulous! I love how it grows with the trillium grande florum. You are so lucky to have wild cyps. growing in abundance in Minnesota.

Please post more photos! Nothing can compare to seeing them growing in the wild.

P.

Amazing!!!
Ross - I was a little confused - are those wild?
:shock:

Went to the arboretum yesterday - all trees, no cyps. (The horror!)
It was still nice though. :)

Very lovely!

Amazing!!!
Ross - I was a little confused - are those wild?
:shock:

Yes, those are growing in the woods near us. I put "in the wild" in quote because the country around here is hardly wild anymore, although we still see an occaisional bear and hear wolves and loons.

BTW, most of these plants are on property that Julie and I own. I would be happy to send out a pollinia for anyone to use on their plants.

That is so fabulous! I love how it grows with the trillium grande florum. You are so lucky to have wild cyps. growing in abundance in Minnesota.

Please post more photos! Nothing can compare to seeing them growing in the wild.

P.

Thanks, Paul. Here's a couple more photos. Shooting was a little tough with hundreds of Minnesota's 'State Bird' (the mosquito) buzzing around me and another prolific plant (poison ivy) all around me.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/paphreek/Cypparviflorum3.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/paphreek/Cypsunnygroup2.jpg

I put "in the wild" in quote because the country around here is hardly wild anymore, although we still see an occaisional bear and hear wolves and loons.

:laugh: Not wild and you hear wolves :laugh:

That's a good one!

Tom

BTW, I love the shots. Really nice. That first shot is awesome. It looks like an intermediate form with v. parviflorum. I agree with Paul, there is nothing like seeing any orchid in the wild, even here in the "hinterlands" of Japan where your more likely to hear a train going by!

Look at those twists! Nice shots. Thanks for sharing!

Those are great. It is nice to be able to go out and see them grow and flower.

Nice shots and flowers! Love the twists!!
Thanks Ross

Very beautiful!

Thanks for the photos!

Truly magnificient! One blooming plant in the wild is more exciting than 100's in a garden! That group is very, very attractive! Please show all of them that you find!

Those flowers demonstrate the difficulty of separating pubescens and parviflorum. The plants and flowers look "pubescens-size" whereas the phenotype looks essentially "parviflorum-like" although most parvi's have uniformly-dark twisted sepals and some of these are a bit lighter.

I guess Mother Nature doesnt follow our written rules.

Ron Burch

Truly magnificient! One blooming plant in the wild is more exciting than 100's in a garden! That group is very, very attractive! Please show all of them that you find!

Those flowers demonstrate the difficulty of separating pubescens and parviflorum. The plants and flowers look "pubescens-size" whereas the phenotype looks essentially "parviflorum-like" although most parvi's have uniformly-dark twisted sepals and some of these are a bit lighter.

I guess Mother Nature doesnt follow our written rules.

Ron Burch

Thanks, Ron. I will try to scan in some old pictures of a larger colony that was nearby, to show the incredible variety of blooms. Unfortunately, the colony seems to be in decline. Overgrazing by deer and rabbits might have contributed to the decline, but I think the woods getting darker is the major cause. If I owned the property, I would try thinning the trees and brush a bit.

Awesome shots! They look a lot different than the pubescens I photograph down here on the Virginia coastal plains. I :heart: intraspecies variety!

I think the woods getting darker is the major cause. If I owned the property, I would try thinning the trees and brush a bit.

I suspect that you are right. I became obsessed with Cyp's as a result of some wild Cyp pubescens in the woods behind my house. As the trees got bigger the Cyps disappeared, although I did not realize that the darkness was the cause. The major tree that overshadowed them was lost in a winter storm, leaving the immediate area much sunnier, and that spring the plants came back after being absent for two years (no stems at all those two years) and bloomed the second season afterward, continuing to add stems each year.

Ron Burch