Cyclopogon elatus orchid. Native to Jamaica and Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), introduced by gardener John Fairbairn in 1790, raised by Quaker brewer John Walker of Arno's Grove. Tall neottia, Neottia elata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by an unknown artist from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, edited by John Sims, London, 1819.

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