Posts Tagged ‘Pun’
Plant Taxonomy and Country Charm Collide in this Little Story From 1916
A Rose by any Name Smells as Sweet December 16, 1916 Today, a humorous little garden story was shared in the Star Phoenix out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. A famous botanist was pacing slowly along a country road, his eyes, as usual, roaming from side to side for new plants to study. Suddenly an eager look…
Read MoreRemembering Botanist Katherine Esau and her Fables
“Katherine once gave a lecture titled ‘The Saga of Vladimir-the-Virus and the Sad Fate of Norman-the-Nucleus.'” June 4, 1997 On this day, the German-American botanist Katherine Esau died. She received the National Medal of Science for her outstanding work on plant anatomy. When researching Katherine Esau, I discovered she was born in Ekaterinoslav, Ukraine.…
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