The Romance of Orchid Discovery - the John Day Scrapbooks
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Aerides roseum

 

Painted as:

Aerides fieldingii

 

Scrapbook:

42

 

Date:

1884

 

Distribution:

North-east India, Bhutan, Burma, Thailand, South China, Laos, Vietnam

This species of ‘fox-tail’ orchid was introduced to Britain by the nursery firm of Messrs Loddiges of Hackney, who were the first English company to specialise in tropical orchids in the early nineteenth century.