Dinema polybulbon orchid. Native to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, introduced by plantation owner Charles Horsfall from Jamaica. Horsfall owned 69 enslaved people on the Knowsley and New Hope Estates. Bulb-bearing epidendrum, Epidendrum? polybulbon. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823-27.

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