Cypripedium forrestii
Queen Lady's Slipper
Cypripedium reginae
Walter Species
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- Botanical name
- Cypripedium reginae
- Also known as
- Queen Lady's Slipper, Queen Lady's-Slipper, Showy Lady's Slipper, Showy Lady's-Slipper
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Genus
- Cypripedium
- Reference
- World Flora Online
How to grow Queen Lady's Slipper
We have not written a growing guide for this species yet.
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Other names for this plant
These names have all been used for Cypripedium reginae but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.
Calceolus reginae
Cypripedium album
Cypripedium canadense
Cypripedium hirsutum f. album
Cypripedium hirutum f. album
Cypripedium reginae f. albolabium
Cypripedium reginae f. album
Cypripedium reginae f. reginae
Cypripedium reginae var. album
Cypripedium spectabile
Cypripedium spectabile var. album
Cypripedium spectabile var. incarnatum
Others in Cypripedium
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