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 Friends of the Garden Meeting in Athens Georgia Register Here Botanical History 1606 Birth of Edmund Waller (books about this person), English poet,…
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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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