Spanish botanist (1817-1884).
Domingo Bello y Espinosa (31 July 1817, La Laguna, Canary Islands – 21 January 1884) was a Spanish lawyer and botanist. He earned his doctorate at the University of San Fernando (now the University of La Laguna), later serving as secretary of the Colegio de Abogados in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1845–47). In 1850 he emigrated to Puerto Rico, where he maintained a successful law practice. Here he befriended Leopold Krug, a German consul stationed in Mayagüez, who like Bello y Espinosa, was an amateur botanist. With Krug, he collected flora native to the island, and in the meantime, took copious no