🚨 Bloom alert 🚨 See this rare Deppea splendens flowering in our Conservatory's Cloud Forest! Deppea splendens first entered our botanical collections in 1982, as plants grown from seeds collected by @calacademy botanists at Cerro Mozotal in Chiapas, Mexico. As of 1986, this area—which was the only known location of Deppea splendens growing in the wild—was cleared for farming. While specimens still exist in gardens like ours, the plant is now presumed to be extinct in the wild.