The Romance of Orchid Discovery - the John Day Scrapbooks
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Aeranthus grandiflora

 

Painted as:

Aeranthus grandiflorus

 

Scrapbook:

53

 

Date:

1887

 

Distribution:

Madagascar

Aeranthes grandiflora was one of the first Madagascan orchids to reach Europe. John Forbes discovered it growing as an epiphyte on evergreen forest trees on Mount Ambré in the north-east of the island. The semi-translucent flowers are carried on long wiry inflorescence stalks.