Show found long lost orchid once one odthe rarest orchids in the world the or venus foot known to gardeners as ladys ladya slipper dwindled in numbers bumbers to such an extent that at one time there was only one specimen known to be in existence in the Western hemisphere no one knew knevi where the original collector had stumbled across the rarity and alindon firm offered 1000 pounds for a specimen of the alost lost orchid A ftera lapse of years a civil engineer working in nepal came across the long sought bloom growing profusely in the tropical jungle he sent a number of plants plaits to england id where they grew and florl flourished shed |