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Anguloa clowesii – tulip
orchid
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Scrapbook: |
5 |
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Date: |
1866 |
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Distribution: |
Venezuela |
This illustration of a Venezuelan ‘tulip’ orchid was
one of John Day’s earliest watercolour paintings. The plant,
which he had flowered in his own glasshouses, had been collected
by a prolific collector, Henry Blunt, who described it as ‘a
terrestrial orchid growing in damp shady places on the cool parts
of the Cordillera – elevation probably 5 to 6000 ft’.
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