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Angraecum sesquipedale – comet orchid
The spectacular ‘comet orchid’, with its elegant white flowers, is one of Madagascar’s best known plants. On receiving a flowering specimen of the plant from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1862, Charles Darwin predicted that there would be a moth with a tongue long enough to extract nectar from the 30 cm long spur. Forty years later, just such a moth was discovered! John Day flowered this species in the early 1880s.
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