Alex Drum Hawkes
Alex Drum Hawkes was an American botanist and cookbook author who lived in Coconut Grove, Florida and Kingston, Jamaica. Hawkes specialized in orchids, bromeliads, palm trees, fruits, vegetables, and nuts. Named the orchid genera Flickingeria, and Paraphalaenopsis and travelled the world extensively, particularly the Caribbean and Latin America during the 1940s to the 1970s collecting plants and authentic regional recipes.
Publications
Cookbooks and recipes
- Editor of The Horticulture Publications, Coconut Grove, Florida
- Editor of COOKERY NOTES Coconut Grove, Florida Recipes by Alex D. Hawkes
- South Florida Cookery: Unique Recipes from the Tropics and Elsewhere Wake-Brook House, Coral Gables, Florida
- Tropical Cookery
- The Shrimp Cookbook: 140 Wonderful Ways To Serve Shrimp Culinary Arts Institute, Chicago, Illinois
- A World of Vegetable Cookery: An encyclopedic treasury of recipes, botany, and lore of the vegetable kingdom Simon & Schuster, New York illustrations by Bill Goldsmith
- Cooking with vegetables : an encyclopedic treasury of recipes, botany, and lore of the vegetable kingdom
- Eating Out in Jamaica: A Unique Guide to Good Eating DMP Publications Ltd., Kingston, Jamaica
- The Rum Cookbook William Collins & Sangster, Jamaica Photography by Maria LaYacona
- The Flavors of The Caribbean & Latin America: a personal collection of recipes Viking, New York illustrations by Lynda West Compiled & Foreword by Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz
Botanical works
- The Gardener's Pocketbook The National Horticultural Magazine
- The Major Kinds of Palms Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coconut Grove / Coral Gables, Florida
- The Orchid Journal An International Review of Orchidology Berkeley, California - Official Publication of The International Orchid Society
- Orchid Weekly The Horticulture Publications, Coconut Grove, Florida
- Palm Papers The Horticulture Publications, Coconut Grove, Florida
- Bromeliad Papers The Horticulture Publications, Coconut Grove, Florida
- Tropical Plants The Horticulture Publications, Coconut Grove, Florida
- Cultural Directions For Orchids The Horticultural Publications
- Orchids Their Botany & Culture Harper & Brothers, New York
- Tropics Magazine © Alex D. Hawkes
- The Four Arts Garden : history and catalogue of the labeled plants Garden Club of Palm Beach, Florida
- Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids, an illustrated descriptive manual of the members of the Orchidaceae currently in cultivation Faber & Faber, London
- Guide to Plants of the Everglades National Park Tropic Isle Publishers, Coral Gables, Florida
- A Plantman's Guide to Jamaica
- Wild Flowers of Jamaica Collins & Sangster, Great Britain illustrations by Brenda C. Sutton
- Illustrated Plants of Jamaica J. Wray & Nephew, Jamaica
Homages
The following plants or genera were named by Hawkes or in his honor:; Genera:FlickingeriaGrafia HelleriellaHellerorchisKatherineaMendoncellaParaphalaenopsis
; Hybrids:Neoregelia 'Alex D. Hawkes' tristis X marmorata Flickinger, 1960Brassavola 'Yaki' Brassavola cucullata × B. nodosa A.D.Hawkes, 1946Cymbidium 'Katherine Hawkes Chatham' Cym. Dainty × Cym. floribundum A.D.Hawkes, 1964Encyclia 'Alex Hawkes' Encyclia oncidioides × Encyclia diurna Moir, 1969Prosavola 'Alex Hawkes' Brassavola nodosa x Prosthechea mariae Flickinger, 1964Renanthera 'Alex Hawkes' Renanthera coccinea x Renanthera storiei Moir, 1954
- × Rhyncholaeliocattleya 'Alex Hawkes' Rhyncholaeliocattleya cliftonii x Cattleya Mount Royal Wright, 1949