Tooth-like flowered zygopetalum orchid, Zygopetalum maxillare. Native to Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, sent by F. Warre from Rio de Janeiro to nurseryman George Loddiges in Hackney. Handcoloured engraving from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 4, Orr and Smith, London, 1837.

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