Angraecum Sesquipedale - Darwin's Orchid
For more information on this amazing plant; its discovery in Madagascar in 1798 by French Botanist Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars, its association with Charles Darwin who surmised that the plant could only be pollinated by, at that time, an undiscovered moth with a proboscis of unprecedented length and how his prediction was verified after his death, sign up for our newsletter by clicking the link on our home page. Botanical Name: Angraecum Sesquipedale Common Name: Darwin's Orchid