Description:This page from The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala by James Bateman describes epidendrum aurantiacum, also known as Orange Epidendrum.
The author comments ruefully that up to the time of writing it has been very difficult to encourage this plant to thrive in England.
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About this book
Only 125 copies of this book were published.
It is physically one of the largest botanical books ever published, and appears here by kind permission of The Spode Museum Trust.