The beautiful and well known Angraecum sesquipedale, Star of Malagasy, has long been popular among orchid hobbyists. But its story is as interesting as its flower. In 1862 while exploring Madagascar, Charles Darwin came across this orchid with the foot-long nectary, and proposed that there was a pollinator with an equally long tongue to reach the nectar, and pollinate the orchid. Some 40 years after Darwin’s death in 1882, a giant hawk moth with a foot-long proboscis was discovered on the island and fittingly named, Xanthopan morganii praedicts.