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HEINRICH
GUSTAV REICHENBACH (1823-1889)
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-PHALAENOPSIS APHRODITE - BUYSSONIANA
- CORNINGIANA - CORNU-CERVI - DELICIOSA - EQUESTRIS - FASCIATA - FUSCATA
- LOWII-LUEDDEMANNIANA - MACULATA - MANNII - PALLENS - PANTHERINA - PARISHII
- REGNIERIANA - SANDERIANA - SCHILLERIANA-SPECIOSA - STOBARTIANA - STUARTIANA
- SUMATRANA -TETRASPIS-
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Après John Lindley, disparu en 1865, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach devint le "Roi de l'Orchidée". Des spécimens d'Orchidées arrivaient chez lui en provenance du monde entier pour identification et son herbier enrichi de nombreuses notes et dessins rivalisa en importance avec celui de Lindley a Kew. | |
Les
lettres de Reichenbach étaient souvent teintées d'esprit
et d'ironie et il n'aimait pas que d'autres piétinent ses plate-bandes.
Son herbier était jalousement gardé contre les intrusions
de ses collègues et une aura de mystère entourait son existence.
Reichenbach lui-même, si l'on en croit son avis de décès
dans le Gardener's Chronicle du 18 Mai 1899, ........was possessed of
remarkably distinct individually , which was as remarkable as his curious
crabbed handwriting which few could decipher. Short and massive in stature
till his recent illness, with a keen penetrating glance and aquiline nose
, his features reavealed something of the impetuous temper of the man,
and his occasional biting sarcasms . His devotion to Orchids amounted
to a consuming passion ; not a scrap , nor a note ,nor a sketch, however
rough, came amiss to him if it related to an Orchid. To him meals and
clothes were necessary evils , but his herbarium was a prime necessity
of existence . The amount of his work was prodigious . Of its quality
the botanists of the future will judge better than we. |
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