Cypripedium Gabriela Drought Tolerant Plants and random green blotches

and random green blotches

While the overall effect is bright yellow

well-branched specimen in 15 years

the 6' long stalks are topped with 20" long terminal spires of bright red

Cypripedium Gabriela Drought Tolerant Plants and random green blotchesCypripedium 'Gabriela' is a 2003 Werner Frosch hybrid that combines two of the largest flowering hardy ladyslipper orchid species together the US native Cypripedium kentuckiense and the Himalayan Cypripedium fasciolatum. The 18" tall plants are topped in April (NC) with large, egg like pouches that can either be cream or yellow (each seedling is slightly different). The pouches are backed with chartreuse sepals that are heavily veined purple very