In the treaty of Hieronynus Tragus Bock (1489-1554) and later in the book Worlds subterraneus the Jesuit Athanasius Kircher in 1665, stated that orchids do not produce seeds and sprouting plants lost the match semen in mammals. In 1737, orchids were rescued from superstition by Carolus Linnaeus in his Genera Plantarum. In contrast, in China the orchids have already been drawn and described scientifically in the third century. The first reference to American orchids found in the Codex Badianus, a treaty of Aztec medicinal plants in 1552. This book describes the vanilla with the fruit of this orchid tlilxochitl was being prepared, a potion used as perfume, spice or medicine.

The interest in orchids in Europe just woke up when the first orchids bloomed in the New World, Bletia Verecundus. This plant was sent from the Bahamas to England in 1733. At that time the Pacific was carried to England spectacular 15 species of orchids, and what initially was a specialty for botanical orquideomania became nobles. All the rich had to build an orchid as a status commensurate with its obligation, and when an orchid bloom, the event led to big parties and the news covered the front pages of the press. The orchid trade really began to be feasible with the discovery of the steamship in the mid eighteenth century, during the heyday of the orquideomania. Large companies emerged on the European continent, specializing in the collection and sale of orchids. Is large and expensive armed expeditions to Asia and New World tropics, especially to the Royal Audience of Quito.