Beautiful giant-flowered dendrobium or beautiful tree-bloom, Dendrobium formosum. Found by botanist William Roxburgh on trees in Sylhet, Bangladesh, and the Garrow (Garo) Hills, India. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after a botanical illustration by Sarah Drake from Edwards’ Botanical Register, edited by John Lindley, published by James Ridgway, London, 1839.

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