Elsie Elizabeth Esterhuysen

Elsie Elizabeth Esterhuysen

The Modest Model Botanist Today we celebrate the birthday of a South African who had many botanical triumphs; Botanist Elsie Elizabeth Esterhuysen born April 11, 1912. She’s been described as “the most outstanding collector ever of South African Flora”, collecting 36,000 herbarium species. A botanist at the Bolus Herbarium in Cape Town, Elsie was beyond…

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