Maxillaria sanderiana inhabits montane forests in Ecuador and Peru. It can grow on trees, rocks or leaf litter, and has single-leaved pseudobulbs.
Size and growth: medium-sized orchid; flower about 12.5 cm. Flowering: summer and autumn; fragrant flowers.
Lifespan: A numerical lifespan range is not established by the references used. These figures describe the taxon, rather than the current dimensions or health of the specimen in Prague.
Tomáš Baťa () (3 April 1876 – 12 July 1932) was a Czech entrepreneur and founder of Bata Shoes. He died in a plane crash caused by bad weather. Baťa’s half-brother Jan Antonín Baťa took over his company, expanding it during the Great Depression.
World War II resulted in much destruction of the business. After Communist governments were established in Czechoslovakia and other nations of Eastern Europe, they nationalized the Baťa enterprises, taking over the company group. Tomáš’s son Thomas J. Bata rebuilt and expanded shoe manufacturing in the company name after moving to Canada in 1939, at the time of the Nazi invasion and annexation of Czechoslovakia.
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