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Dracula radiosa
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Painted as: |
Masdevallia radiosa |
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Scrapbook: |
28 |
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Date: |
1881 |
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Distribution: |
northern Andes |
This Colombian orchid, with its astonishing purple flowers, was
one of the discoveries of the German plant collector, Gustav Wallis.
From a series of expeditions to the forests along the Brazilian
Amazon beginning in 1858, and subsequently in the Philippines, the
northern Andes and Panama, Wallis introduced a huge number of orchids
to European orchid enthusiasts. He died of fever combined with dysentery
in Ecuador in 1876.
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