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unusual facts about Economic Botany


Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana

Reviewing volume 7 in Economic Botany, Neil A. Harriman wrote that the entire flora was "lavishly produced, with a great many line drawings to aid in identification".



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Combretum indicum

Dr John Ivor Murray sent a sample of the "nuts" to the Museum of Economic Botany in Edinburgh in 1861, with a note that they were "used by the Chinese for worms" and a description of the means of preparation and dosage.

Richard Thomas Baker

Richard Thomas Baker (1 December 1854 – 14 July 1941) was an Australian economic botanist, museum curator and educator.

W. Hardy Eshbaugh

Botanical Society of America, Certificate of Merit, August, 1992 "Inspiring and caring teacher, dedicated researcher, able administrator, president of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists, the Botanical Society of America, and the Society for Economic Botany, champion of the science of botany."