As part doing a stocktake of the tropical and temperate orchids in the Living Collection I was impressed to see accession numbers that indicated we had plants well over 100 years old.

We have 44 orchid accessions that are over 100 years old growing in the Living collection at the Botanics. This is a little about them and their collection factsheets.

This is a work in progress and as the curation of the orchid collection continues the plant names will be updated, identification changed, images added and more information regarding their source will all be added.

 

Stanhopea saccata Bateman

This plant was part of a lot bought through Protheroe & Morris, Auctioneers,  London, that arrived in the garden on the 27th March 1896.

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Stelis alba Kunth

This plant 27th March 1896 was part of a lot bought through Protheroe & Morris, Auctioneers, London, that arrived in the garden on the 27th March 1896.

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Maxillaria turneri G.Nicholson

Came from Dr. J Foulis on the 3rd of June 1896.

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Dracula bella (Rchb.f.) Luer

This plant was part of a lot bought through Protheroe & Morris, Auctioneers, Central Auction Rooms,  London that arrived in the garden on the 27th March 1896.

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Masdevallia corniculata Rchb.f.

This plant was part of a lot bought through Protheroe & Morris, Auctioneers, Central Auction Rooms,  London that arrived in the garden on the 27th March 1896.

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Masdevallia demissa Rchb.f.

This plant was part of a lot bought through Protheroe & Morris, Auctioneers, Central Auction Rooms,  London that arrived in the garden on the 27th March 1896.

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Dryadella simula (Rchb.f.) Luer

This plant was part of a lot bought through Protheroe & Morris, Auctioneers, Central Auction Rooms,  London that arrived in the garden on the 27th March 1896.

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Cochlioda noezliana (Mast.) Rolfe

This plant was part of a lot bought through Protheroe & Morris, Auctioneers, Central Auction Rooms,  London that arrived in the garden on the 27th March 1896.

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Odontoglossum x coradinei Rchb.f.

This plant was part of a lot bought through Protheroe & Morris, Auctioneers, Central Auction Rooms,  London that arrived in the garden on the 27th March 1896.

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Bulbophyllum crassipes Hook.f.

This accession came into the collection from  Lyon & Turnbull 1 April 1897

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Pleurothallis obovata (Lindl.) Lindl.

This accession came into the collection from  W. Bull 7th April 1898

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Cochlioda noezliana (Mast.) Rolfe

Came from Dr. J Foulis on the 21st September 1899

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Cymbidium tracyanum L.Castle

Came from Bull and Sons on the 14 May 1903

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Pleurothallis macrophylla Kunth

Came from Hugh Low & Sons on the 9 Mar 1906

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Bulbophyllum sicyobulbon Parish & Rchb.f.

Came from J. O.Brien on the 9 Nov 1906

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Odontoglossum edwardii Rchb.f.

Came from Lyon & Turnbull on the 19 Sept 1908

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Oncidium sphacelatum Lindl.

Came from Lyon & Turnbull on the 10th Sept 1908

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Dendrobium thyrsiflorum Rchb.f.

From Miss Dawson, of Powfoulis Manor, Falkrik 16th Oct 1908

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Masdevallia tovarensis Rchb.f.

From J.C. Wright. 20 April 1899

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Cymbidium wilsonii (Rolfe ex Cook) Rolfe

From Mansell & Hatcher Orchid Growers

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Restrepia brachypus Rchb.f.

From Sander & Sons 1 April 1910

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Coelogyne lawrenceana Rolfe

From Sander & Sons 11 April 1911

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Stanhopea grandiflora (Lodd.) Lindl.

From Sander & Sons 11 April 1911

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Coelogyne tomentosa Lindl.

From Sander & Sons 12 January 1911

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Maxillaria luteoalba Lindl.

From Sander & Sons 28th Feb 1912

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Maxillaria coccinea (Jacq.) L.O.Williams ex Hodge

From Sander & Sons 28th Feb 1912

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Dendrobium x delicatum (F.M.Bailey) F.M.Bailey

From Sander & Sons 28 Feb 1912

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Trias picta Parish

From Sander & Sons 28 Feb 1912

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Masdevallia rolfeana Kraenzl.

From Sander & Sons 28 Feb 1912

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Lycaste macrophylla (Poepp. & Endl.) Lindl. var. measuresiana (B.S.Williams) Fowlie

From Sander & Sons 5th March 1913

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Dendrobium chrysotoxum Lindl.

From Sander & Sons 8th April 1914

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Pleurothallis tubata (G. Lodd.) Steud.

Came to us from Glasnevin, before it was a National Trust Property, on the 10th of October 1914 as Physosiphon moorei

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Dimorphorchis lowii (Lindl.) Rolfe

 

From Sander & Sons 27th Jul 1914 as Arachnanthe lowii

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Pleurothallis stenopetala Lodd. ex Lindl.

From Sander & Sons 27th Jul 1914 as Arachnanthe lowii

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x Odontioda Bohnhoffiae grex

From Mr E.H. Robertson from Burnside House Forfar, November 1915

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x Odontioda Bradshawiae grex

From Mr E.H. Robertson from Burnside House Forfar, November 1915

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Masdevallia coccinea Linden ex Lindl.

From Mr E.H. Robertson from Burnside House Forfar, November 1915

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Epigeneium coelogyne (Rchb.f.) Summerh.

From Mr E.H. Robertson from Burnside House Forfar, November 1915

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x Odontioda Cooksoniae grex

From Mr E.H. Robertson from Burnside House Forfar, November 1915

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x Odontoglossum Crispo-harryanum grex

From Mr E.H. Robertson from Burnside House Forfar, November 1915

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x Odontoglossum Warnhamense grex

From Mr E.H. Robertson from Burnside House Forfar, November 1915

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Dendrochilum cobbianum Rchb.f.

Admiral Sir A.Berkeley Milne, Inveresk Gate Musselburgh on the 23 March 1916

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