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Juan Diego del Castillo

Juan Diego del Castillo

Spanish pharmacist and botanist (1744-1793)

Juan Diego del Castillo (1744–1793) was a Spanish pharmacist and botanist who joined Vicente Cervantes in Mexico. Castillo wrote Plantas descritas en el viaje de Acapulco. He died in Mexico. Castillo had been a contemporary of Martín Sessé y Lacasta. In New Spain, Lacasta had been joined by a group of Spanish botanists selected by Casimiro Gómez Ortega, director of the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid. These included Cervantes, José Longinos Martínez, and Del Castillo.

Del Castillo left a large sum of money towards the printing of their projected book Flora Mexicana. Cervantes named the genus Castilla after him.[1]

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  1. [1]
    M.J.R. Loadman, Tears of the Tree: The Story of Rubber –a Modern Marvel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 25.


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