Ruben Sauleda is founder, owner and manager of Ruben In Orchids, an ornamental plant business established in Dade County in 1962. Ruben In Orchids is a leading producer and supplier of orchid seedlings and tissue culture orchid plants to commercial growers.

Besides orchid plants, Ruben also cultivates for sale ferns, bromeliads, palms, other container plants (including mango and citrus trees) and various ornamental plants in hanging baskets.

Ruben Sauleda has a Ph.D. in Biology (Orchid Taxonomy and Physiology) from the University of South Florida, Tampa, and his areas of professional expertise are Taxonomy, Ecology, and Biogeography of the Orchidaceae and Cactaceae of Tropical America; Seed Germination; Tissue Culture; and Nutrition and Physiology of Tropical Orchidaceae.

Ruben In Orchids has exhibited in the Miami Orchid Show, the largest yearly orchid show in the world, continuously since 1962 and hundreds of national and international orchid shows, winning countless awards from the South Florida Orchid Society and the American Orchid Society.

Ruben will be supplying the raffle table and he will also have plants for sale.

See you there!