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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Mule Ear Orchid Oncidium splendidum
Dendrochilum uncatum Rchb. f. 1855
Pink Ball (Dombeya x cayeuxii)
Albino Lady Slipper Orchid Paphiopedilum fairrieanum
Dendrochilum wenzelii Ames 1915
Kapok Tree (Ceiba pentandra)
Miniature Orchid Epigeneium nakaharaei
Orchid Hybrid Cattlianthe White Bridal
Lady Slipper Orchid Paphiopedilum Hsinying Pitch
Orchid Hybrid Bulbophyllum Wilbur Chang
Hippeastrum reticulatum var. striatifolium
Canary Orchid (Dendrobium discolor)
Plectrelminthus caudatus (Lindl.) Summerh. 1949
Buddha Belly (Jatropha podagrica)
Giant Sensitive Tree (Mimosa pigra)
Lady Slipper Orchid Paphiopedilum Florento
Hindu Rope (Hoya compacta)
Galeandra leptoceras Schltr. 1920
Dendrobium macrophyllum A. Rich. 1834
Pulai Tree (Alstonia angustiloba)
Hoya macgillivrayi F. M. Bailey 1914
Monkey Flower Tree (Phyllocarpus septentrionalis)
Bulbophyllum sikkimense (Cirrhopetalum sikkimense)
Spathoglottis Citrus Cooler Sorbet