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Forest Orange. Masdevallia sp., Cloud Forest Conservatory, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore

The Cloud Forest Conservatory of the Gardens by the Bay of Singapore has a wonderful section of Orchids. There are huge ones and also very tiny ones for which the gardeners have devised a very helpful system of magnifying glasses. Here, though, is an Orange In-Between, I think a Masdevallia.

There are lots of Masdevallias and a huge following of hybrids. Masdevallia was first used as a scientific name in 1794 by Hipólito Ruiz López (1754-1816) and José Antonio Pavón Jiménez (1754-1840). They were indefatigable botanists, members of a voyage of exploration (1777-1788) to Peru and Chile funded by king Charles III of Spain. Upon their return they published their findings in 1794 and gratefully named this Orchid for José Masdevall Terrades Llobet y Berenguer (?-1801), 'the king's most deserving doctor and a patron of botany'.

Which Masdevallia this is more specifically I don't know: perhaps it's the Hybrid Annette Hall... It's like an Orange Flame in the Jungle!

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Uploaded on January 9, 2017
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