Posts Tagged ‘Prodromus’
Augustin Pyramus de Candolle: The Master Botanist and Founder of a Botanical Dynasty
A Living Legacy: The Botanical Garden of Geneva Today is the birthday of the Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. Candolle named hundreds of plants. His seven-volume monumental work, Prodromus, was an effort to characterize all of the plant families and establishing the basis for the science of botany. He only finished two volumes. Augustin’s…
Read MoreAlphonse de Candolle: The Father of Geographical Botany and Garden Zones
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 4, 1893 On this day in botanical history, the distinguished botanist Alphonse Pyramus (“Peer-ah-mus”) de Candolle (“Cundull”) departed this earthly garden at the venerable age of 87 in Geneva in 1893 (October…
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