Hi All,
Sorry if this crosspost is the 18th time you've seen this! Please ignore it if it is. There are probably at least 2 people who haven't been linked though. I'll be "brief".

The first set of pic's is from our Memorial Day trip to Southern OR.

My favorite serpentine bog. The Darlingtonia are fantastic and the Cyps are everywhere.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/nankeen/Serpentine2.jpg

Cypripedium californicum
Between some boulders, by the river.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/nankeen/CypcalBridge1.jpg

Single.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/nankeen/CypcalSingle03.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/nankeen/CypcalSingle07.jpg

When a bug gets trapped and can't find their way out.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/nankeen/CypcalEatenThrough.jpg

A rare goof up.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/nankeen/CypcalDeformed01.jpg

In the bog.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/nankeen/CypcalByLeft.jpg
Cypripedium fasciculatum.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/nankeen/Cypfasciculatum01.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/nankeen/Cypfasciculatum07.jpg

We also visited Mt Hood in Northern OR.

Cypripedium montanum.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/nankeen/Cypmont01.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/nankeen/Cypmontdouble.jpg

Forma welchii.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/nankeen/Cypmontwelchii.jpg

Cyp kentuckiense in a friend's garden.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/nankeen/Cypkent.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/nankeen/Cypkent2.jpg

Cyp tibeticum, same garden.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/nankeen/Cyptibeticum.jpg

Best,
Ross

Beautiful Cyps and photos! I love that Cyp montanum! Thanks for posting!:cool:

WOW...AWESOME photos...thnx

Stunning photos! That californicum is especially crazy.

--Stephen

Great photos! That bog is awesome! I love seeing all those CPs! The cyp californicum is lovely too.

What great flowers! Fantastic californicum!

Just phenomenal! :woohoo: :woohoo:

thanks

:biglove:
Fantastic shots!!
Love em all!
Thanks for sharin

Spectacular Ross! Especially the second shot of C. californicum. You've outdone yourself with these shots, I mean, how could you take better ones? That cross between montanum and kentuckiense ought to be a beauty! Thanks for the awesome shots.

Tom

Hi Everyone, Thanks for the kind words.

Tom, "How could [I] take better pictures?"... Next year... next year. Practice makes perfect, right?

Funny, no one has commented on the Cyp fasciculatum except for one party in a PM. I would have thought people would have jumped all over that one! I would have, anyway... but then again I've always liked those tiny green-brown extremely rare flowers :)

Best,
Ross

Hi, Ross,

Every time you take one of those trips please send photos! Those bogs are great and Cyp californicum is unbelievable.

Ron Burch

:confused: :confused: :confused: in the first pic what are all those walkn stick lookn things????? :confused: :confused: :confused: they look really cool but i have no idea what they are!!:confused: :confused:

Funny, no one has commented on the Cyp fasciculatum except for one party in a PM. I would have thought people would have jumped all over that one! I would have, anyway... but then again I've always liked those tiny green-brown extremely rare flowers :)

You are right Ross, we should make noise over that one given its rarity. It is encouraging to see it setting seed like that. Are you trying to flask this species too? It isn't the most lovely Cyp, but it's really cool and deserves to be propagated. Thanks again for the lovely shots!

Tom

Love the pictures. Those are very beautiful cyps. You should not mention the location to anyone just in case they dig it out and sell them.

Paphman910

In the first picture, are those pitcher plants? Sarracenia purpurea?

Paphman910

In the first picture, are those pitcher plants? Sarracenia purpurea?


I think those are Cobra Plants (darlingtonia). Very difficult to grow unless you can keep their roots cool!

Hi All,
Ron: I will Certainly send pictures each time. I love photographing them. Their habitat makes such good pictures... On related note, what the heck is up with your name? Fungo-pancha? Wha..?

Charlie: The "Walking Stick Things" are Darlingtonia californica, the only West coast Pitcher plant. They are found along the OR shore, throughout the Klamath and Siskiyou Mts and down into the Sierra Nevada in CA. The eastern pitchers, genus Sarracenia, is confined mostly to the south eastern states, except S purpurea which extends from FL all the way throughout Canada to the NE tip of BC. It doesn't exist in the Western US though. Both Genera grow as fields of pitchers. Here is a picture taken up hill just to the left of where Lisa is standing. You can see the Cyps everywhere.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/nankeen/Serpentine05.jpg

And this picture is taken at the end of the previous picture, underneath the diagonally fallen tree.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/nankeen/Serpentine06.jpg

They extend in every direction for a ways.

Tom: I am both unsatisfied and happy about the amount of photos on the internet of this species. It means that there aren't many people caring for it, but also that there aren't people messing with it!

I read an article that gave some statistics of natural seed set of this species in 3 locations. The Southern OR location had a natural seed set of 69%! while the ID and CO pop's had somewhere around 20-30%.

Bill Steele succeeded in prop'ing this species nearly 10 years ago and raised seedlings flowering size, only to lose them a few years later due to a watering issue. He did say that they form some of the largest seedlings in vitro of all of Cypripedium! I do plan on collecting a small amount of seed and sending it to the best propagators in the Cyp community. Ask again in 5-7 years about it ;)

This seedling has a death wish. It was growing on the Path! 4 inches away from the true woods. Fortunately, not many people walk along this path, and few visit except to see this species.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/nankeen/Cypfasciculatum04.jpg

Paphman: I certainly would not release the locations to just anyone. However, the sites I visited are well known to anyone familiar with the area. If you were there, you would see why these sites are Botany Meccas.

Teresa: They are apparently difficult to grow anywhere that has warm nights! I imagine that San Antonio would not support Darlingtonia very well, but places like NH, VT and CT might, given winter protection. Especially if the soil was shaded during the day so as not to heat up much more than underground temps. None the less, here in the Portland area, they seem fine. I have a ton of seedlings from wild seed I collected last year. I keep them under some shade cloth to keep the hot sun directly off, and I spray them with cold water at least once a day, more if it's above 85F.

Though not a slipper, I hope everyone will enjoy the relaxing-ness of the following photo: Platanthera sparsifolia (I think. LGOs! Little green orchids... They drive me nuts)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/nankeen/Platanthera06.jpg

Best,
Ross

Hi Ross,

Excellent shots as always! Keep posting, I really enjoy your pictures, thanks!:cool:

so pretty fotos

Love the LGOs!
Thanks for posting.