The Romance of Orchid Discovery - the John Day Scrapbooks
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Oncidium sarcodes var. discoidale

 

Scrapbook:

52

 

Date:

1886

 

Distribution:

Brazil

John Day acquired a batch of over 100 Oncidium sarcodes when he visited Brazil in 1884. He commented that ‘I did not see it growing in the forest myself but bought it from a dealer to whom the plants were brought by the labourers who felled the trees to clear ground for coffee plantations’.