Pink Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium acaule Ait.) The Pink Lady's Slipper is an orchid. There are rare varieties with white flowers. During May to July, they flower and can be 15 cm to 38 cm (6 to 15 inches) tall. I just realized the Lady Slippers can grow 15 cm to 15 inches tall. Pink Lady's Slipper interacts with a fungus ( Rhizoctonia genus) in the soil, to survive and reproduce. Orchid seeds do not have food supplies, most other seeds do. Pink Lady’s Slipper seeds require fungus threads to break open the seed and attach them to it. The fungus will pass on food and nutrients to the pink lady's slipper seed. The older Lady’s Slipper Plant produces nutrients to the fungus from the orchid roots. Symbiosis, a mutually beneficial relationship between the orchid and the fungus is typical of almost all orchid species. Pink lady’s slipper takes many years to go from seed to mature plants. Seed-bearing harvest of wild lady's slipper root is not considered sustainable. Pink lady's slippers can live to be twenty years old or more. Link: https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/cypripedium_acaule.shtml Filmed using Google Pixel 7 Pro Philosophy and musings while hiking Perkin's Farm Conservation Area, Worcester, Massachusetts, New England, USA, Earth, Emojis: https://tools.picsart.com/text/emojis/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPaOoqnZkw0

Grafton, MA Station for the Commuter Railroad station between Union Station Worcester, MA. to South Station Boston MA MBTA Commuter Rail Purple Train Worcester / Framingham to Boston Line. Nature photography, Philosophy, Affirmations, Declarations, Meditations, and musings while hiking. Commuter rail Station Grafton, MA, Massachusetts, New England USA Earth. Filmed using Google Pixel 7 Pro Emojis: Emojis: https://tools.picsart.com/text/emojis/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbcuyvydZAM