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| Also see Corallorhiza maculata, Epipactus gigantea, Cypripedium calceolus, White Orchids, and Green Orchids. |
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Calypso bulbosa
(Calypso Orchid) Orchidaceae (Orchid Family) Blooming information withheld to protect the Orchids. Calypso Orchids are quite difficult to spot among the other plant life of the forest floor. The plant is very slender, has only one basal leaf, and although the plant does sometimes occur in patches by the dozens, it often grows singly and scattered. Calypso bulbosa's marvelous symmetry; contrasting magentas, whites, yellows, and purples; and overall delicate flamboyance are haunting. This wonderful Orchid is found in all Western U. S. states and along the northern tier of states as one heads East. It is also found in Eurasia; it was first collected in Siberia and in 1753 was described by Linnaeus who named it Cypripedium bulbosum. William Oakes (1799-1848) renamed it Calypso bulbosa in 1842. Calypso, the daughter of Atlas, lived a solitary life on an island where she made life very sweet for the occasional sailor washed up on her shores. Please,
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Drying petals droop over a
ripening Calypso bulbosa seed pod. |
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