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Botanist Carl Peter Thunberg’s Ingenious Method of Gathering Hydrangea Clippings in Japan
“Ever the clever end-rounder, Carl devised a strategy to obtain botanical samples: he bought a goat.” August 8, 1828 On this day, the botanist Carl Peter Thunberg, the father of South African botany, died. He was a student of Carl Linnaeus and worked as a botanist for the Dutch East India Company. After botanizing in…
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