Cypripedium Aki Sun to Light Shade Each 3' wide clump is

Each 3' wide clump is truly scrumptious

but it grows in full sun and is native to all but 8 states of the continental United States

glossy green leaves form a fine-textured specimen that looks like something you'd see in the tropics

the true Alocasia wentii has only recently become known in horticultural circles

Sitting below this radiating leaf

Cypripedium Aki Sun to Light Shade Each 3' wide clump isCypripedium 'Aki' is a strain of hybrid ladyslipper orchids developed in 1996 by Germany's Werner Frosch by crossing the Chinese Cypripedium macranthos with the American Cypripedium parviflorum var. pubescens. The heat tolerance of the Cypripedium parviflorum var. pubescens allows gardeners in warmer climates to have success. The hybrids, which display amazing vigor, emerge in late spring forming 18" tall stalks topped with large plum to pink striped