Name: from the Greek signifying concealment.
Botany:
Epidendroideae, Calypsoeae; undisturbed, mountain forests; flower small pink, purple, pinkish-purple, or red flower accented with a white lip, darker purple spottings and yellow beard.
English: Fairy slipper;
Venus’s slipper.
Culture: Calypso lured Ulysses to forsake his wife; myth of Lorelei; movie Junglebook; Sirens; Eric Clapton, Tears in Heaven.
Source: Roland Guenther.