Orchids and Pukekura Park
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Historically the Pukekura Park orchid collection has flourished under the care of George Fuller, and present-day Fernery and Display House staff continue in that tradition to produce vigorous orchids such as the photographed Coelogyne pulverula with its 17 trailing flower spikes. Originally purchased by George in 1986 at a Kew Gardens plant swap, the Indonesian beauty has undergone a name change. Once named Coelogyne dayana after John Day, prominent English orchid collector, the orchid is now officially called by its original name given 20 years earlier when identified in northern Borneo as Coelogyne pulverula 'Cutie'.
