Where was Phalaenopsis first discovered?

Phalaenopsis was discovered by 1750. The original species of Phalaenopsis should be the first to be discovered. It is said that it was discovered by a Dutchman. 1825, when Dr. C. L. Blume of the Netherlands University of Botany was the director of the Royal Botanical Garden in Buitenzorg, Java, he was very interested in plant collection. According to the predecessors, Noesa Kembanggan Island, not far from Java Island, is still an undeveloped virgin land, so he climbed mountains and came to a stream on a stone embankment. He saw many orchids along the way, but they were all common varieties. But when he looked at a group of butterflies on the low-lying water with a telescope, he was surprised to find a group of about 20 dazzling white butterflies on the other side. But when he looked carefully, he found that these butterflies hung almost motionless on the tree. After crossing the river and climbing to the other side, I realized that it was an orchid, not a butterfly, and then the local gatherer sent the orchid to the garden. Dr. Bloom named this orchid "Bij Drage Ntot de Flora van Nederlands India" and published it in 1825. So when writing this generic name, Blume's name is often listed at the back, which means it looks like a lovely butterfly in Latin.

But before that, Phalaenopsis had been discovered by others and given other names. For example, G.E. Rumpius of Germany discovered this plant growing on the spice island in Ambon in about17th century, and published it in the sixth volume of Ambon Herbarium in 1750. He called it Angraecum album majus, which is a local name "Angrek Boelan", which means moon orchid.

Peter Osback described the discovery of this native species on pages 46, 50 and 177 of volume II of his Journey to China and east indies. 1752 1 month 19 On the way from China to England, I passed an island in the west of Java and landed because of the water. After passing through the coral-wearing sea people, I came to a jungle where birds were singing. The noisy cries of lizards and other creatures almost make people unable to hear their own voices. They collected some orchids from the branches on the shore. After returning to Europe, he handed over the collected orchids to Linnaeus, a Swedish plant taxonomist at that time. At that time, Linnaeus identified all the aerial orchids. They were all named "Epidendrum" and published in the Journal of Species and Plants 1753, and were named "‘Epidendrum amabilis'".

This flower was introduced from Malacca to Kolkata Botanical Garden in 1798, and was classified as an orchid by Dr. Roxburgh in18/4. It was not officially named Phalaenopsis until 1825, 75 years after it was first described.