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cattleya. This most popular of florist’s orchids has nothing to do with cattle, having been named for William Cattley (d. 1832), English amateur botanist and botany patron. The Cat- tleya genus includes some 40 species, though over 300 hybrid- ized forms are known. Cattleya labiata, with its 200 or so named varieties, is the most commonly cultivated orchid in America—the showy magenta-purple-lipped, yellow-throated “florist’s orchid”—although the enormous orchid family con- tains perhaps 500 genera and 15,000 species. The Cattleyea fly and the Cattley guava, a subtropical fruit, also commemorate the English plant lover. |