Delicate violet orchid, Ionopsis utricularioides
Delicate violet orchid, Ionopsis utricularioides. Native to tropical America, Mexico and the Caribbean, introduced from Trinidad by German botanist Eduard Freiherr von Schack, Baron de Schack, to Glasgow Botanic Garden. Pale-flowered iantha, Iantha pallidiflora. Epidendrum utricularioides. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823-27
Picture No
14011445
Media ID
45826442
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4518px x 7670px
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Credit
©Florilegius/Mary Evans
Source
William Jackson Hooker





























