Ruy de Souza Queiroz was the proprietor of the Fazenda Cresciumal in the state of São Paulo, city of Leme, Brazil. In 1999 a garden was created where it preserves hundreds of Brazilian native plant species, some rare ones including Patagonula bahiensis and Goiabão. It depended on the contribution of the engineer agronomist Harri Lorenzi and his givers.
He died in November 2004 from lung cancer.