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First new wild lady’s-slipper orchid found for 100 years marks conservation win - The discovery of the wild-grown seedling ...
Conservationists are celebrating the resurgence of the lady’s-slipper orchid, one of Britain’s rarest wildflowers, with the ...
A new lady's-slipper orchid, once believed to be extinct in the UK, has been spotted in the wild for the first time in 100 ...
It’s the flower that frustrated Charles Darwin. He went to his grave unable to work out how to propagate the lady’s slipper orchid and it was thought to be extinct from the UK countryside. But for ...
The lady’s slipper orchid came close to vanishing from the English countryside, with its discovery described as a “truly thrilling moment”.
Perhaps the most spectacular group of Ohio orchids are the lady’s slippers in the genus Cypripedium. Four species occur, one of which, the pink lady’s slipper, is the subject of this column.
It looks like it would gobble up an unsuspecting pollinator but instead the pouch called a labellum is simply nature’s method of getting a pollination program underway. The pollinator flies into ...
The lady’s slipper orchid came close to vanishing from the English countryside. Now, work by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust to reintroduce plants into suitable habitats has seen it found again.