Fringed dendrobium or liu su shi hu orchid, Dendrobium fimbriatum. Native to China, India and Indochina. Found in the Himalayas by surgeon and botanist Dr Nathaniel Wallich. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and engraved by Frederick William Smith from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 2, Orr, London, 1836.

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