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Paphiopedilum sanderianum
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Painted as: |
Cypripedium sanderianum |
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Scrapbook: |
51 |
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Date: |
1886 |
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Distribution: |
North-eastern Sarawak |
Orchid nurseries went into a frenzy of competition when the first
specimens of this astonishing orchid reached England. Then, as now,
its flowers, with twisting petals reaching as much as 1m in length,
made it extremely desirable. Although a number of orchid growers
acquired it during the last two decades of the nineteenth century,
within twenty years it had almost vanished from cultivation. It
was not rediscovered until 1979, when a biologist encountered it
growing on vertical limestone cliffs in north-eastern Sarawak.
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