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unusual facts about plant collector



Nepenthes 'Alba'

Numerous artificial hybrids long thought to involve N. thorelii likely represent crosses with other Indochinese species of the "N. thorelii aggregate"—particularly N. bokorensis, N. kampotiana, and N. smilesii, as these were the most accessible to plant collectors—or hybrids thereof.

Paul Sintenis

Paul Ernst Emil Sintenis (4 April 1847 Seidenberg, Oberlausitz, Prussia – 1907) was a German botanist, pharmacist and plant collector.

Veitch Nurseries

Famous plant hunters in the Victorian period employed by the Veitch family include the brothers Thomas Lobb and William Lobb from Cornwall and the Scottish plant collector David Bowman.


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Encephalartos ghellinckii

Named for Édouard de Ghellinck de Walle, the 19th Century Ghent plant collector, horticulturist and amateur botanist who first cultivated it in Europe, it was formally described in 1868 by Charles Antoine Lemaire, the French taxonomist who happened to be an authority on Cactaceae.

Eremophila clarkei

The first formal description of this species appeared in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae in 1859 and is attributed to botanist Ferdinand von Mueller and plant collector Augustus Oldfield.

Frances Margaret Leighton

Frances Margaret Leighton (8 March 1909 King William's Town - 8 January 2006 Blairgowrie, Victoria) was a South African botanist and the daughter of James Leighton (1855-1930), a Scotsman and Kew horticulturist and plant collector.

Francis Masson

Masson was the first plant collector to be sent abroad by the newly appointed director Sir Joseph Banks; he sailed with James Cook on HMS Resolution to South Africa, landing in October 1772.

Howellanthus

The new name honors botanist John Thomas Howell and his friend, plant collector Ella Dales Miles Cantelow.

Isaac Bayley Balfour

Balfour's interest in Sino-Himalayan plants also put him in contact with botanist and plant collector Reginald Farrer.

Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland

In 1766, the Genevan Romantic and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau met Bentinck, admired her knowledge of botany despite his general belief that women could not be scientific, and offered his services as her "herborist" (plant collector).

Mary Gibson Henry

Mary Gibson Henry (1884-1967) was an American botanist and plant collector from Philadelphia, who also served as president of the American Horticultural Society.

Millettia

In the 1820s-1830s Charles Millett, a plant collector and an official with the East India Company, collected many samples of Millettia while living in Canton and Macao.

Pechuel-loeschea

Pechuel-loeschea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, and named after the German plant collector and geographer Eduard Pechuël-Loesche.

Picea farreri

Picea farreri is named after the plant collector Reginald Farrer who travelled extensively in China and what was then Burma.

Solier

Antoine Joseph Jean Solier (1792–1851) – French naturalist, entomologist and plant collector

Ulmus 'Louis van Houtte'

The cultivar is named for the Belgian horticulturist and plant collector Louis Benoit van Houtte, 1810 - 1876.

Viburnum farreri

The Latin specific epithet farreri commemorates the English plant collector Reginald Farrer.

William Archer

William Andrew Archer (1894–1973), U.S. economic botanist and plant collector

William Purves

William H. Purvis (1858–1950), plant collector and investor in sugar on the island of Hawaii