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The orchid has been discovered by José Antonio Molina Rosito, a Honduran botanist and Professor emeritus at the Zamorano Pan-American School of Agriculture. [ 1 ] Rhyncholaelia digbyana was declared the national flower of Honduras (Flor Nacional de Honduras) on 1969 November 26.
Disa uniflora, the red disa or pride of Table Mountain, [1] [2] is a South African species of orchid in the family Orchidaceae. [1] [3] It is the type species of the genus Disa, and one of its best-known members. It is occasionally referred to by its old name Disa grandiflora. [1] [3] [2] [4]
She was the first and longest serving Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) orchid artist. [3] Roberts was employed from 1897 until 1953 to paint life-sized illustrations of orchids that had gained RHS awards. These built a reference collection of images of cultivars and hybrids for the Society [4] that are held within the RHS Lindley Library. She ...
Prosthechea cochleata is the national flower of Belize, where it is known as the black orchid. [53] Lycaste skinneri has a white variety (alba) that is the national flower of Guatemala, commonly known as Monja Blanca (White Nun). Panama's national flower is the Holy Ghost orchid (Peristeria elata), or 'the flor del Espiritu Santo'.
Calanthe triplicata commonly known as the common Christmas orchid [2] is a plant in the orchid family and is native to Oceania, Asia, Pacific islands, and the islands of eastern Africa. It is a terrestrial orchid that grows in clumps with crowded pseudobulbs , dark green corrugated leaves and up to forty white flowers.
Gymnadenia nigra, also known as the black vanilla orchid, is a species of orchid and the provincial flower of Jämtland, a historical province of Sweden. [1] It is a perennial species found in the major mountain ranges of Europe, including the Pyrenees and the Alps, into the Balkans and central Scandinavia, though its population has declined in the past decades due to over-harvesting.
Angraecum sesquipedale / ˌ s ɛ s k w ɪ p ɪ ˈ d eɪ l iː /, also known as Darwin's orchid, Christmas orchid, Star of Bethlehem orchid, and king of the angraecums, is an epiphytic orchid in the genus Angraecum endemic to Madagascar. The orchid was first discovered by the French botanist Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars in 1798, but was ...
Disa is a genus of flowering plants in the family Orchidaceae.It comprises about 182 species. [1] [2] Most of the species are indigenous to tropical and southern Africa, with a few more in the Arabian Peninsula, Madagascar, and Réunion. [3]