Laelia Rubescens
''Laelia rubescens'' is a species of orchid native to Mexico and Central America. Distribution ''Laelia rubescens'' is native to the Central American countries Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and much of Southern/Central Mexico. It also occurs in the wild in Florida and Cuba as an escapee from cultivation, having been intentionally introduced as an ornamental plant. ''Laelia rubescens'' grows in seasonally dry, deciduous forests as an epiphyte and occasionally as a lithophyte Lithophytes are plants that grow in or on rocks. They can be classified as either epilithic (or epipetric) or endolithic; epilithic lithophytes grow on the surfaces of rocks, while endolithic lithophytes grow in the crevices of rocks (and are also ... at elevations below 1700 meters. Synonyms *''Amalia rubescens'' (Lindl.) Heynh. *''Cattleya rubescens'' (Lindl.) Beer *''Bletia rubescens'' (Lindl.) Rchb.f. *''Laelia acuminata'' Lindl. *''Laelia peduncularis'' Lindl. *''Ama ...
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John Lindley FRS (5 February 1799 – 1 November 1865) was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist. Early years Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden. Although he had great horticultural knowledge, the undertaking was not profitable and George lived in a state of indebtedness. As a boy he would assist in the garden and also collected wild flowers he found growing in the Norfolk countryside. Lindley was educated at Norwich School. He would have liked to go to university or to buy a commission in the army but the family could not afford either. He became Belgian agent for a London seed merchant in 1815. At this time Lindley became acquainted with the botanist William Jackson Hooker who allowed him to use his botanical library and who introduced him to Sir Joseph Banks who offered him employment as an assistant in his herba ...
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