Joseph Decaisne (1807 – 1882) was born in Brussels, Belgium, but was working as a French botanist and agronomist exclusively in Paris. In 1824 Decaisne started as a gardener at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (French Museum of natural history) and in 1832 he became the chief of the sowing department. Decaisne began …
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William Jackson Hooker (1785 – 1865) an English Botanist was educated at the high school of Norwich. As he came from a wealthy family, William Jackson Hooker was able to travel and start on studies of natural history, especially ornithology and entomology. On a recommendation of Sir James Edward Smith he focused his activities to Read More »
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Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer (1846 – 1906) was a German botanist. In the year 1872 Pfitzer became professor of botany and director of the botanical garden in Heidelberg (Germany) and started to invent a new Orchidaceae system. His new orchid system observed vegetative as well as floral characteristics of the orchids and …
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Charles Samuel Pollock Parish (1822 – 1897) wasn´t a botanist, but invaluable for the orchidologists of that time John Lindley and Joseph Dalton Hooker. Charles Samuel Pollock Parish was born in Calcutta, India at the 26.02.1822, He was educated at Oxford University,where he graduated in 1841 and took the Bachelor of Arts. 1852 he was Read More »
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Karl Ludwig Blume (1796-1862), also called Charles Ludwig de Blume and Karel Lodewijk Blume, was a German-Dutch botanist. Karl Ludwig Blume was born at 09.06.1796 in Braunschweig, Germany. In 1818 he was sent by his teacher and mentor Sebald Justinus Brugmans as a naturalist to Jakarta, Indonesia, at that time named Batavia. From 1823 …
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William Griffith (1810–1845), a british botanist and doctor was educated in medical profession and was apprenticed to a surgeon in London. In 1829 he started to study at the University of London as a student of the famous Sir John Lindley. There William Griffith got to know Nathaniel Wallich, a famous danish botanist. In 1832 Read More »
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The german botanist Rudolf Schlechter (1872-1925) was a specialist on Orchidaceae (orchids) and Asclepiadoideae
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Louis Marie Aubert Du Petit-Thouars (1758-1831) was a famous French botanist, who first described the Bulbophyllum orchid species.
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Gustav Kunze (1793-1851) was a German botanist and doctor. 1813 Kunze registered at the University of Leipzig, where he took a doctoral degree in medicine. Gustav Kunze had also a good reputation as a botanist and joined the Wernerian Natural History Society in Edinburgh in the year 1817. In the following years he became a Read More »
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Robert Allen Rolfe (1855–1921),
a british botanist specialised in Orchidaceae studies,
was the first curator of the Orchid Herbarium at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew…
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Henry Nicholas Ridley (Ridl.), often called Mad Ridley or Rubber Ridley, described a vast number of orchids
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HRH Prince Paripatra Sukhumbhand , Prince of Nakorn Sawan (1881-1944), the 33 rd son of King Rama V (Chulalongkorn), was a pioneer orchid enthusiast of Thailand and wrote the country´s first book on orchids. He was an avid cultivator and seeker of orchids, both within and outside of Thailand. The Prince was wellknown to orchid Read More »
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The German botanist Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823 Leipzig/Germany -1889 Hamburg/Germany) started to study botany at the age of 18 and graduated as doctor in botany. 1855 he became extraordinary professor of botany in Leipzig. His doctoral dissertation was about the pollen of orchids. From 1863-1889 Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach was director of the botanical gardens at Read More »
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The English botanist John Lindley (1799-1865) was the first botanist, who took a classification of orchids in hand and he is deemed to be the father of the science of orchids. John Lindley was born as the son of a gardener at 05.02.1799 in Norfolk. 1818 he started to work as a librarian helper in Read More »
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Gunnar Seidenfaden (Seidenf.) was an important botanist on Orchidaceae from South Asia…
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Lemonia (Ravenia spectabilis)
Bulbophyllum orectopetalum
Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi Blume & Rchb. f. 1860
Epidendrum ciliare (Coilostylis ciliaris)
Man of the Earth (Ipomoea pandurata)
Dendrobium infundibulum Lindl.1859
Paphiopedilum insigne
Crimson Bottlebrush (Callistemon citrinus)
Phalaenopsis Golden Beauty
Paphiopedilum parishii
Hoya megalaster
Vandachostylis Thai Sky
Phalaenopsis violacea fo. coerulea Christenson
Oceanblue Morning Glory (Ipomoea indica)
Buddha’s Lamp (Mussaenda philippica var. aurorae)
Hoya waymaniae Kloppenb.1995
Brassia Eternal Wind “Summer Dream”
Phalaenopsis × valentinii
Hoya carnosa white
Cattleya Tainan City
Hoya macgillivrayi F. M. Bailey 1914
Monkey Flower Tree (Phyllocarpus septentrionalis)
Bulbophyllum sikkimense (Cirrhopetalum sikkimense)
Spathoglottis Citrus Cooler Sorbet