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3 unusual facts about Gustave Thuret


Gustave Thuret

Beginning simply as a collector, he soon came under the influence of Joseph Decaisne, whose pupil he became.

He continued his studies of the zoospores and male cells of Algae and other similar plants, and contributed to the understanding of such motile stages in vegetable life.

Jardin botanique de la Villa Thuret

The garden was created in 1857 by Gustave Thuret (1817-1875), a botanist best known for studies of reproduction in algae, who used it to conduct plant acclimatization trials with friend and lichen expert Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet (1828-1911).



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