Oh, I should have added secrecy. Once found a lot of people who realize what they have keep 'mum' about the slippers.
I just sent my son still living on Long Island to check on a large population that we knew about.
He reports that they have spread out like an amoeba. Flowers numbered close to 1,500 he reports. Some dense pockets had over a hundred plants in a living room sized area. There are indications they said of perhaps 5,000 seedlings coming. Small, non blooming plants were everywhere!!
This was wonderful news since I first saw these guys back in May of 1971! That's 51 years if my math is right. At that point they were tightly grouped and easier to survey. Nature does win some after all!
Edited to add, these are a deep Rose red color form, much darker then most images I have seen.
One good friend of mine back in the late 70's early 80's, turned slides into maybe a 30" wide by 12" photograph, matted and framed, that they hung in their living room. I wonder if that image survives.
I know that AOS renowned watercolor artist, Angela Mirro, visited this group often and one year made a Show Poster for the Greater New York Orchid Society Show back 40 years ago. It was stunning!! I lost my copy somehow in one of my moves.
