Posts Tagged ‘Mathias de l’Obel’
March 3, 2022 Edmund Waller, Mathias de l’Obel, Muriel Wheldale Onslow, Yury Olesha, Terrain by Greg Lehmkuhl, and Edward Thomas
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Botanical History On This Day 1606 Birth of Edmund Waller, English poet and politician known for his famous carpe diem poem Go, Lovely Rose, urging the rose…
Read MoreLobelia’s namesake: Mathias de l’Obel and the botanical tale of beauty and toxicity
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. March 3, 1616 Dearest reader, On this day, the botanically inclined world welcomes the arrival of Mathias de l’Obel (“ma-TEE-us dew Lew-bell”), a Flemish physician whose gentle wisdom forever changed our understanding of…
Read MoreMathias de l’Obel: The Flemish Botanist Who Distinguished Monocots and Dicots
Lovely Lobelia March 3, 1616 Today is the birthday of the Flemish physician and botanist Mathias de l’Obel (“ma-TEE-us dew Lew-bell”). Mathias practiced medicine in England. And among his accomplishments, Mathias was the first botanist to recognize the difference between monocots and dicots. Today we remember Mathias de l’Obel (“LEW-bell”) with the Lobelia plant. Before…
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