Its a slipper orchid ; I can assume that some primitive early slipper orchid was present in Gondwanaland - the single continent which existed before the mass split up and the continents separated and migrated around the globe. The plants in the Americas evolved into Phrags ( and Mexipediums) also Selenipedium ( why does no-one grow Selenipedium ? Lovely big orchids, leaves five foot long , a flower spike even longer , dozens of flowers, all the size of a bee .....the colour - can't remember , nothing very special anyway...ahah, thats why ! )Originally Posted by kiwiorchids
Of course apart from Phrags, those primitive plants in the more tropical parts of the land mass which became Asia and Oceania, evolved into Paphs , and those in the northern part ( remembering that Asia and North America remained joined for a long time until separated by the formtion of the Bering Strait, ) became Cyprepedium - which are spread around the world in the northern hemisphere.
End of paleological lecture... I wonder how far experts would agree with my dissertation which is based solely on Darwinian principles and logic ? But after all, no-one was there to watch it happening, so I am as right as anyhone could be, perhaps.
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