The Romance of Orchid Discovery - the John Day Scrapbooks
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Phalaenopsis parishii

 

Scrapbook:

50

 

Date:

1886

 

Distribution:

Burma, Assam, Thailand

Another fine introduction from the Reverend Charles Parish in Burma (now Myanmar), this orchid was described from Parish’s own collection by H G Reichenbach. Parish painted many of the plants he collected and his original paintings are held in Kew’s Herbarium.