The Microscopic Gardener: Matthias Schleiden’s Cellular Legacy

Matthias Jakob Schleiden with notebook and victorian background

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 5, 1804 This day marks the birth of one Matthias Jakob Schleiden, a German botanist whose work on plant cells has gardeners everywhere unconsciously in his debt, though most wouldn’t recognize his…

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