Chinese wild lady slipper flower nursery, Sichuan, China

Visit us at: botanyboy.org/ The mountains of southwest China are home to a wide range of lady slipper orchid, genus Cypripedium. In this video we visit a nursery dedicated to growing these rare plants, Hengduan Mountains Biotechnology, owned and operated by Holger and Wenqing Perner. You get an intimate view of many lady slippers in flower and also get to see some of the sites around these wild mountains.

[@i_am_will5537]

I have bought from them, they actually ship them really nice and they bloomed for me back home :)

[@bluetonguemorphs8735]

Love seeing these. I spent my life developing media for Paphiopedilum and Phragmipedium in vitro. Hopefully these never disappear. Love you videos

[@biozcw]

Awesome video, I missed the days when I was in Western Sichuan years ago searching for these holy grail of orchids in the wild.

[@botanyboy1]

It is with great sadness that I have to report that Holger Perner died last month in his adopted home, Chengdu. The loss to his family is of course devastating. The loss to the orchid world and the people's lives he touched throughout the world is also devastating. The efforts of Holger and his wife Wenqing to bring Chinese plants (in particular orchids) to the attention of humanity was unselfish and idealistic - nobody "get's rich" doing this kind of work. In the end their tours and tireless travels around the world lead to his early death.

[@lilytoh3580]

Wonderful to see these orchids growing well in situ and we have learned to preserve their natural habitats while commercially reproducing them in the labs and not stripping them off their natural habitats.

[@MiuraNidu]

Awesome video! Thank you for sharing. So sad to hear the loss of Holger😢

[@ElizabethNinanDr]

delighted to see the different species lovely video thank you,

[@ohmitered408]

wow those orchid are nice

[@fificorina]

They are so gorgeous! I hope those mountains aren't that accessible so the orchids and other rare plants still grow and not be destroyed be the consumer society.

[@Plant4yourself]

직접 보면 더 멋지겠죠? 화원에서 구입해 키우고 있는데 매력있습니다.(제가 키우는 것과는 당연히 비교 불가겠지만... )

[@bryantchan6168]

lovely orchid

[@user-yv2yk1sd8y]

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[@TheFloatingflower]

wow..what beautifull plants! thanks for the order-web.-adress!

[@andrearossi3766]

Lindas ,amo essas espécies,pena que não dá para comprar ,pois deve ser muito caras

[@rosaibarra4053]

Hola muy hermosas esas especies de cypropediun una pregunta si los vende beybis plantas cada una de las colotes cuanto cuesta cada una de ellas vende por envio o semillas de cada color y forma son muy hermosas soy de ecuador.

[@ohmitered408]

are any of those orchid being sold in the U.S.A and where can I find them?

[@longnguyen-pe9qu]

cypripedium tibeticum