The Romance of Orchid Discovery - the John Day Scrapbooks
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Tropical America

Masdevallia rosea

 

Scrapbook:

35

 

Date:

1883

 

Distribution:

Colombia

One of the most highly prized of the Andean Masdevallias, this species was another discovery of Frederick Lehmann, a gold prospector and orchid hunter, who was also the German Consul to Colombia and Ecuador. Several horticultural nurseries imported this orchid in large quantities in the early 1880s.