Paphiopedilum apricot
Paphiopedilum armeniacum (scientific name: Paphiopedilum armeniacum) was first collected by China botanist Zhang Ouluo in 1979. A new species named by Chen and Liu Fangyuan in 1982. Paphiopedilum apricot is an epiphytic or semi-epiphytic plant of Orchidaceae and Paphiopedilum. Ye Jisheng; A few at most, the leaves are banded and leathery. Scapes grow from leaves, bracts are not leaflike; The top of the ovary often shrinks into a beak shape; The flowers are large, bright and colorful; The middle calyx is erect, the pollen is powdery or sticky, and the staminodes are flat; The stigma is thick and bent downward, with papillae on the stigma surface, and the fruit is a capsule. Flowering in February-April. ?
Paphiopedilum is one of the most appreciated species in Orchidaceae, and Paphiopedilum armeniacum fills the blank of Paphiopedilum yellow flower line because of its very rare apricot color. Paphiopedilum apricot flowers are large and elegant, with a flowering period of 40-50 days, which has high ornamental value. What's even more amazing is that its flowers are turquoise when they are in bud, yellow-green at first, apricot yellow when they are fully open, and golden yellow at the later stage. It shines with the emblem of A Jin in the sun, which is rich and luxurious and can be called the top grade of Paphiopedilum.
morphological character
Terrestrial or semi-epiphytic plants with slender and transverse rhizomes underground; Rhizomes are 2-3 mm in diameter and have several slightly fleshy and hairy fiber roots. Leaves basal, two rows, 5-7; Leaf blade is oblong, leathery, 6-12cm long and1.8-2.3cm wide. The apex is sharp or sometimes curved, and the tip is thin, with grid-like spots alternating with dark green on it, dense purple spots on the back, keel-like protrusions, fine teeth on the edge, and the base is reduced to petiole-like, and folded to nest.
Scape erect, long 15-28 cm, light purple-green, short brown hair, with 1 flower at the top; The spatula is ovoid-lanceolate or ovoid, with a length of 1.3- 1.8 cm, light green and yellow with purple spots, and slightly hairy; Pedicel and ovary 3.5-4 cm long, white pubescent; Ovary has 6 blunt longitudinal edges; Flowers are large, 7-9 cm in diameter, pure yellow, and only staminodes have light chestnut longitudinal stripes; The middle sepal is ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 2.2-4.8 cm long and 65438 0.4-2.2 cm wide, with acute apex, villous near the top and base on the back, and ciliate at the edge; Sepals are similar to the middle sepals, 2-3.5 cm long and 1.2-2 cm wide, with a blunt and undivided tip, villous back and two dark keel-like protrusions, and ciliate edges. Petals are large, broadly ovoid-elliptic, broadly ovoid or suborbicular, 2.8-5.3 cm long and 2.5-4.8 cm wide, with acute or suborbicular apex, white villous at the base of the inner surface and ciliate at the edge; The lip is deeply saccate, nearly elliptic, spherical or broadly elliptic, 4-5 cm long and 3.5-4 cm wide, with short claws at the base, a nearly round mouth, and the whole edge folded inward, but the top edge is narrow, with white fluff and purple spots at the bottom of the capsule; The staminodes are ovate or ovoid in width, with a length of 1-2 cm and a width of 1- 1.5 cm, with a sharp apex and a blunt keel-like protuberance on the back. The flowering period is from February to April.