{"id":5328,"date":"2012-05-28T16:53:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T23:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5328"},"modified":"2012-05-28T19:56:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T02:56:50","slug":"fairy-slipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5328","title":{"rendered":"Fairy slipper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The fairy slipper<\/strong> or calypso orchid<\/strong> (Calypso bulbosa<\/em>)\u00a0frequents cool, moist, coniferous forests, so what better place to look for it than beside our raging creeks of springtime. Yet, it is\u00a0inconspicuous on the forest floor—calypso<\/em>\u00a0is a Greek word meaning hidden. And hidden is the keyword: two days ago, I spotted only one flower; today, while walking the same path, I managed to find over a dozen.<\/p>\n

Here are three shots of what many consider to be our most beautiful\u00a0wild orchid<\/a>.\u00a0These are followed by a bumble bee carrying what may be its pollinia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the past, I have only noticed the fairy slipper in isolation. So, this group was unexpected. Unfortunately, I could not move in for a closer picture as these fairy slippers were on a cliff ledge well below me.
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I managed to get closer to two adjacent orchids atop the cliff.
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Other fairy slippers seen were isolated.
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Orchids (and a few other flowers, such as the periwinkle and dogbane) assemble their pollen into packets that the flower glues to the back of a bee. Here is a bumble bee (Bombus bifarius<\/em>) carrying two pollinia (the yellow\u00a0capsules between its wings). Whether these come from the fairy slipper cannot be determined, but it is a good possibility.
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  The fairy slipper or calypso orchid (Calypso bulbosa)\u00a0frequents cool, moist, coniferous forests, so what better place to look for it than beside our raging creeks of springtime. Yet, it is\u00a0inconspicuous on the forest floor—calypso\u00a0is a Greek word meaning hidden. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs","category-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5328"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5339,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328\/revisions\/5339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}