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Augustin Pyramus de Candolle: The Master Botanist and Founder of a Botanical Dynasty
A Living Legacy: The Botanical Garden of Geneva Today is the birthday of the Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. Candolle named hundreds of plants. His seven-volume monumental work, Prodromus, was an effort to characterize all of the plant families and establishing the basis for the science of botany. He only finished two volumes. Augustin’s…
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Read MoreAlphonse Pyramus de Candolle: The Father of Geographical Botany and Plant Origins
Father of Geographical Botany Today is the birthday of the botanist Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, who was born on this day in 1806 the year Linnaeus died. He was the son of the Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. Candolle’s ground-breaking book, Origin for Cultivated Plantsbegins, “It is a common saying, that the plants with which…
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