page_title: John Rogers (naturalist)
section_title: Gardener
hierarchical_section_title: John Rogers (naturalist) / Gardener
caption_attribution_description: Masdevallia floribunda - flowers
context_page_description: John Rogers was an English barrister, known as a naturalist particularly interested in orchids, and gardener.
context_section_description: Rogers was a member of the Royal Horticultural Society and supported plant hunting. He raised plants such as Bessera elegans. 
  Among plants collected in the Real del Monte area of Mexico was one sent to Rogers, and initially named Hydrotaenia meleagris. An account of it was published by John Lindley in 1838, in Edwards's Botanical Register. Masdevallia floribunda was in Rogers's collection by 1843. Charles Darwin referenced a Myanthus collected for Rogers in Demerara, in an 1862 paper.
caption: Masdevallia floribunda, a Central American orchid cultivated by John Rogers
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