More than 20,000 species of orchids ... of the slipper, called the lip, is white with three prominent stripes of bright yellow hairs. The inside of the slipper is white with dark purple dots ...

A new lady's-slipper orchid ... gripped by the orchid craze of the time, was thought to have made the yellow cup-shaped and purple-petaled plant extinct by the early 1900s. But a single plant ...

Plant thieves have struck for the second time in five years after part of a rare Lady's Slipper orchid was stolen from a golf club in Lancashire. This year, the purple and yellow plant produced seven ...

Britain's last remaining lady's slipper orchid, which is due to flower in ... Although experts have tried to re-introduce the purple and yellow bloom in other areas, none have flowered.

More than 20,000 species of orchids ... slipper. The sepals and two upper petals are lavender. The outer portion of the slipper, called the lip, is white with three prominent stripes of bright yellow ...