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DURBAN BOTANIC GARDEN’S ORCHID NURSERY
The Durban Botanic Garden is home to a variety of indigenous, endemic and/or rare orchid species and forms. At this time, the following are being grown:
• Ansellia Africana (forms from Eastern Transvaal and a number from Botswana)
• Cyrtorchis arcuata (donated)
• Rhipidoglossum xanthopollinium (Zululand)
• Eulophia speciose (tissue culture lab)
• Eulophia petersii (two different forms donated)
• Polystachya tesselata (donation)
• Taeniophyllum coxii (newly discovered)
• Rhipidoglossum millarii (one of South Africa’s two most endangered epiphytes. It is a poorly known species only
documented from a few forest patches near Durban and East London)
Lance Rasmussen up the tree. Rhipidoglossum millarii and Jimmy Pauck with the toothpick.
Photo by H. Peters
Photo by H. Peters
