Indonesian President Sukarno presents Kimilsungia to President Kim Il Sung in Juche 54(1965).

Former President Sukarno of Indonesia named the flower Kimilsungia in reverence for President Kim Il Sung.   Kimilsungia, which C. L. Bundt, the Indonesian florist bred in 1964 blending Dendrobium pompadour with D. ale ale kai, belongs to the Dendrobium genus of orchid family.   During his goodwill visit to Indonesia in April 1965, President Kim Il Sung looked around the Bogoru Botanical Garden with President Sukarno. He saw the beautiful pinkish purple flowers with graceful leaves, standing upright and looking livelier than any others around. He admired the flower for its beauty and congratulated them for their success in breeding such a beautiful flower.   The flower still unnamed, President Sukarno proposed to name it after President Kim Il Sung saying that it was an expression of their respect for and hope to learn after him.   Despite of President Kim Il Sung﹊s decline, Sukarno insisted on his opinion that Kim Il Sung fully deserved the glory with the great exploits he had achieved for the humanity.   Respect and reverence of the Indonesians for President Kim Il Sung thus gave rise to Kimilsungia with a new botanical name.   The head of the garden did all his best for the perfection of its cultivation methods to realize propagation of the flower to Korea. But he could not succeed.   Before his death he asked his son and the colleagues to send Kimilsungia to the Korean friends without fail. His will was written in his letter, which read: ﹍′I earnestly wish that Kimilsungia will bloom into beautiful flowers in Korea.﹎   His son, along with the colleague florists, paid great efforts to realize his will and could at last send Kimilsungia in full bloom to the DPRK in 1975, ten years after the President﹊s visit to Indonesia.   On April 20, 1982 Kimilsungia, applied by Gyunter Sukarno Putera, President Sukarno﹊s son, was registered with its official botanical name to the British Royal Horticulture Society.   Kimilsungia won the gold awards at the International Horticulture Exposition 2006, Shenyang, China.