Cypripedium Francis Aucuba parviflorum and the Asian Cypripedium

parviflorum and the Asian Cypripedium macranthos var

The 15" tall stalks of bright reddish-purple flowers top the clump in late winter

heavily mottled with measles-like splotches that emerge purple and age to dark green

which means "large snotty orange tissue with a white topping"

Panicum 'Northwind'

Cypripedium Francis Aucuba parviflorum and the Asian CypripediumCypripedium 'Francis' is a 2001 Owen Robinson release a cross of the US native Cypripedium kentuckiense and the Asian native Cypripedium speciosum. Cypripedium 'Francis', named after Owen's dad, forms a 15" tall specimen, topped with medium sized flowers with a white and purple stained pouch from the Cypripedium speciosum parent, and backed with long, twisted, purple striped sepals that show the influence of Cypripedium kentuckiense. As with all