The Orchid is the national flower of Venezuela

in photography •  6 years ago 

The orchid named Cattleya mossiae was decreed as the national flower of Venezuela on May 23, 1951. Its name pays homage to the botanist William Cattley, who was the first to achieve its reproduction in a greenhouse in 1818.

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