Posts Tagged ‘René Louiche Desfontaines’
February 14, 2022 René Louiche Desfontaines, Orchid Lawsuit, Samuel Graveson, Okakura Kakuzō, Rosie Sanders’ Flowers by Rosie Sanders, and Michaux’s Sumac
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 1750 Birth of René Louiche Desfontaines, French botanist who explored North Africa and authored Flora Atlantica featuring 300 new genera. He famously…
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This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: February 14, 1750 Dearest reader, On this day, in the swirling mists of eighteenth-century France, a botanist of peculiar brilliance was born—René Louiche Desfontaines. Imagine, if you will, the intrigue of Paris salons entwined with the wild fragrance of Algerian hills; such was the…
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