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9 unusual facts about Jardin des Plantes


Abronia umbellata

They were planted at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, and Lambert eventually named their descendants Abronia umbellata, making this species the first Californian flower described by science.

Axolotl

Six adult axolotls (including a leucistic specimen) were shipped from Mexico City to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris in 1863.

Bartolomeo Gastaldi

He spent the years 1849–52 in Paris taking courses at the Ecole des Mines, the Jardin des Plantes, the Collège de France and the Sorbonne.

Bessie Callender

Callender's process began with observing animals in either the Jardin des Plantes or the London Zoo.

Ernestine Panckoucke

Afterwards she regularly attended Redoute's classes at the Jardin des Plantes.

Gardens of Monticello

Andre Thouin, Jefferson’s friend and the Superintendent of the Jardin des Plantes at Paris, sent Jefferson seeds from Europe.

George Samuel Perrottet

He worked as a gardener at the Jardin des Plantes, and in 1819-21 was as a naturalist on an expedition commanded by Naval Captain Pierre Henri Philibert.

Louis-Jules André

His best-known work is probably the Museum of Natural History (now the Gallery of Evolution) in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, a transitional work combining classical rhythms and ornamental details with cast-iron structure and a glass roof.

Louis-Ovide Brunet

His expertise as a botanist developed following field work in Ontario and Quebec, as well as two years spent in visiting European herbaria and a course of lectures at the Sorbonne, the Jardin des Plantes, and the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris, France.


Anselme Riedlé

Anselme Riedlé (1765–1801) was gardener at the Jardin des Plantes who was invited to join the Nicolas Baudin scientific expedition (1800–1804) in the corvettes Géographe and Naturaliste to chart the coast of New Holland (Australia), make scientific observations and collect natural history specimens.


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