Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds (1871) is an oil on mahogany panel picture by Martin Johnson Heade acquired by the National Gallery of Art in 1982. Inspired perhaps by the works of Charles Darwin and Frederic Edwin Church, Heade planned to produce a deluxe book in the 1860s depicting Brazilian hummingbirds in tropical settings, and, to that end, created a series of 40 small pictures called "The Gems of Brazil". The project was abandoned, but Heade retained his interest in hummingbirds and continued to paint them in combination with orchids and jungle backgrounds through the
The Torment of a Flower The Torment of a Flower The Torment of a Flower (), also known as Rainy Night Flower, is a Taiwanese Hokkien song composed by Teng Yu-hsien (; 1906 - 1944) and written by Chou Tien-wang (). A Taiwanese writer Liau Han-sin (廖漢臣) wrote the lyrics of a children's song ""Spring"" (春天) and gave it to Teng Yu-hsien to ask him to compose for it, it's the earliest version of "The Torment of a Flower." Although Teng is a Hakkan, he usually composed with Taiwanese Hokkien but not Hakkan. It is worth noting that some scholars have questioned this story about