Talk:Cypripedium

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Can Kelly sell these to Green Thumb Gardens?

What? Mexipedium xerophyticum 06:00, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Many of the photographs associated with this article are...not up to snuff. Does no one have a free photo of a Cypripedium parviflorum that is 1) accurately colored 2) not a photo of a stunted or dead flower?128.12.79.87 (talk) 06:10, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

There are two different counts for the number of species in this article: >Cypripedium is a genus of 47 species
>There are approximately 356 species in this genus
Don Braffitt (talk) 16:37, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Do any of these offer pollinators any benefit?

My understanding is that they force pollinators (bumblebees) that are able to leave the flower to carry pollinia. As with milkweeds, I'm not aware of any pollinating species that consumes the pollinia. Milkweeds offer nectar but to my knowledge these orchids don't. Therefore, although beautiful, they appear to have little wildlife value, an important measure of plants giving the shrinking amount of habitat given to them (in the face of relentless urbanization). ~2026-11723-07 (talk) 00:06, 22 February 2026 (UTC)