The Colombian species was given its name after the main character in Gabriel García Márquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold, reflecting its uncertain future.
“There had never been a death so foretold.”
Gabriel García Márquez.
When scientists stumbled upon an unfamiliar orchid species thriving in the cloud forests and páramos of Colombia’s Western and Central Andes, they were instantly reminded of the iconic opening line from Gabriel García Márquez’s 1981 novella Chronicle of a Death Foretold.
This is so heartbreaking, we must do everything we can to protect this rare beauty.