Meet the ladies,
They look like tiny, fancy dress slippers waiting for a fairy lady to get in them for the ball or 'It's a Girl theme' cushy - soften baby shoes that I wanna stroke on the palm of my hand. Lady's slipper flower , it also goes by Moccasin flower, slippers of Venus'Venus slippers', goddess of garden, Noah's Ark. These Cypripedium genus from the Orchid family Wildflowers include 50 species, plants that are widespread throughout boreal, Temperate, tropical regions of the European, Asian, and Northern American continents (Alaska). For centuries lady slippers have been sought after and collected not for their unique beauty but also for medicinal trade, The roots are used for tooth pains, muscle spasms and nervousness that are arising from a rhizome with fasciale of numerous fibrous roots 25-90cm high.Nowdays have drastically reduced in numbers which are rare and endangered because of difficult cultivation since it takes 16-20years for the first flower to show and lives for 50 yrs plus loss of habitat rarely survives transplantation from the wild. It has been said that Charles Darwin tried to grow them but failed. In the language of flowers, lady's slipper means Capricious Beauty and Win me (Catch me if you can *;)
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