The pocket orchidsays: beauty and thrift.Pocket for evergreen perennial herbaceous plants, is one of the most primitive taxa of orchids, the flowered son, strange flower, design and color is rich, have spent a lot colors, also called paphiopedilum and fulfillment of fairy.Common varieties are: volume calyx orchid, apricot yellow, round, and the same color blue, purple, round and hard leaf orchid, beautiful round and leafy orchid, ribbon round and MaSu slope orchid, purple hair round LAN, etc.

The pocket orchid profile

Pocket LAN (Paphiopedilum insigne) is also called the lady slipper, because its flowers on lip mutate into pocket shape, like slippers, so the name.At the same time, its calyx lobe also, unlike other orchids, dorsal sepal particularly large, assumes the circular or cardioid, lateral sepals synthetic one, is very small, the born below the dorsal sepal, lip.Orchid is gorgeous, strange flower, long single flowers, is a kind of high-grade flowers.

Which is called the "gold" in Hong Kong, apricot yellow and hard leaf round, are endemic to China, its design and color is bright and beautiful and elegant, a yellow glow, as a bright pink, is rare to find a good color, often as a great parents to pocket orchid breeding.In addition, be fond of color flowers can warm while Henry orchid, beautiful round, red pocket of varieties;Appreciate the wonderful flower can grow some warm beefing up the ribbon pocket and leafy orchid, long disc round LAN, etc., is absolutely different.

The legend of the pocket orchid

It is said that god had seven beautiful daughters, when they know that room a rich man's house is full of odd coloured different grass garden, after a bath every afternoon, when the parents do not pay attention to, wearing a long gown and beautiful slippers, quietly slipped to the millionaires playing in the garden, until the day emperor to shut the door, just in a hurry back to heaven.

Initially, the garden blooming flowers and green grass, be glad to meet all these beautiful fairies, and they also fully appreciate the beauty and fun, get along with each other.Gradually, they show the naughty nature, hide and seek in the garden, skipping, flowers and plants is they trampled down in the dumps, very is angry.

One day, the flowers and plants are unaware, the youngest fairy deliberately she tripped, and hid her slippers into the arms of orchids, disguised as petals, fairies could not find it, had to be back before the door closed.Return to heaven, under the mother ask, they finally told him the truth, and therefore prohibited descent, the flowers and plants in the garden back to life from now on.As for fairy slippers, are always on the petals of the orchid, and gradually became interesting paphiopedilum.

Pocket of the plant is not large, and seven classes of the four seasons evergreen leaves, very suitable for household indoor potted plants.Small varieties or placed on a desk, desk or in the bedroom window, grass flowers, caresses leaves lip, with a spring.Large varieties can be in one corner of the hall, the entrance hallway, strange and beautiful pocket LAN can give a person a kind of the feeling that find everything new and fresh.