Crimson cattleya, ruby-lipped cattleya or crimson-lipped cattleya orchid, Cattleya labiata. Imported from Brazil by English ornithologist and artist William Swainson in 1818. Handcoloured engraving after a botanical illustration by Samuel Holden from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 4, Orr and Smith, London, 1837.

---

Size: 4923px × 6498px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 4, 1837, art, artist, botanical, botany, brazil, cattleya, crimson, crimson-lipped, english, engraving, exploration, floral, flower, flowering, garden, gardening, handcoloured, holden, hunter, illustration, import, joseph, labiata, london, magazine, nursery, orchid, ornithologist, orr, paxton, plant, plants, register, ruby-lipped, samuel, smith, swainson, victorian, volume, william