Object Details
- Description
- This Madagascan orchid grows on boulders littered with rich pockets of nutritious leaf matter. Madelaine’s Angreacum has large white flowers with a delicious scent that becomes stronger at night. It also has an interesting story. Although the orchid is listed as being discovered by the French naturalist H. Perrier, he made a note at the time that it should be called Madelaine’s Angreacum, for the lovely woman who discovered it on a mountain and then cultivated it, Madelaine Drouhard. Two years later, they were married. Whether Perrier “borrowed” Drouhard’s work, or they were a botanical team is a mystery of history.
- Provenance
- From a cultivated plant not of known wild origin
- Range
- Madagascar
- Habitat
- Near quartzite boulders in leaf litter; 800-2000m
- Topic
- Orchids
- Living Collections
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- Smithsonian Gardens Orchid Collection
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Gardens
- Accession Number
- 2011-1992A
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Common Name
- Madelaine's Angraecum
- The Snow-White Angraecum
- Group
- [vascular plants]
- Class
- Equisetopsida
- Subclass
- Magnoliidae
- Superorder
- Lilianae
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Subfamily
- Epidendroideae
- Genus
- Angraecum
- Species
- magdalenae
- Life Form
- Lithophytic
- Bloom Characteristics
- Short inflorescence is .8-1.2" long with 1-5 large, fleshy, white flowers. Flowers are 3-4" across and can last 4-6 weeks.
- Fragrance
- Spicy, jasmine; at night
- Record ID
- ofeo-sg_2011-1992A
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