Local and Holy: Venezuela’s National Flower
Prolific, native, flamboyant as they come — and exclusive: Michael Sinn demonstrates how this flower crowns itself. In popular culture, Cattleya mossiae is known by many different names in its native country of Venezuela: Flor de Mayo (May flower), Mayito (Little May) and Flor del Nazareno (Flower of the Nazarene). The popular names all refer […]