Category

Plant collectors

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English naturalist and biologist (1809-1882)

David Livingstone

Scottish missionary and explorer (1813-1873)

Joseph Dalton Hooker

British botanist, lichenologist, and surgeon (1817–1911)

British botanist (1800-1884)

Johann Baptist von Spix

German naturalist (1781-1826)

Nathaniel Wolff Wallich

surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India (1786-1854)

William John Burchell

British scientist (1781-1863)

linen merchant, botanist and naturalist (1710-1776)

Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet

French scientist (1720-1778)

British botanist and explorer (1817–1893)

Ernest Henry Wilson

British botanist (1876-1930)

Scottish botanist (1873-1932)

British scientist (1812-1849)

Gualterio Looser

Chilean botanist (1898-1982)

Lewis David de Schweinitz

German-American botanist and mycologist (1780-1834) and member of the Moravian Church

Mary Strong Clemens

American botanist (1873-1968)

Julian Alfred Steyermark

American botanist (1909-1988)

Bassett Maguire

U.S. botanist (1904–1991)

Gordon Douglas Rowley

botanist and writer (1921-2019)

Albrecht Zimmermann

German botanist and mycologist (1860-1931)

Cornelis Andries Backer

Dutch botanist (1874–1963)

American botanist (1822–1893)

John Gould Veitch

British horticulturist and traveller (1839-1870)

German botanist, pharmacist and professional plant collector (1847–1907)

British botanist (1811-1894)

British botanist (1818-1880)

French botanist (1861–1937)

Alison Marjorie Ashby

Australian botanical artist and plant collector (1901-1987)

German botanist (1836-1916)

George Nicholson

English botanist and horticulturist (1847–1908)

Thomas Bernard Croat

American botanist and curator (1938— )

British botanist (1830-1909)

German botanist (1830-1878)

Frank Kingdon-Ward

British botanist (1885-1958)

Laurence J. Dorr

American botanist

Frederick William Burbidge

19th century English explorer and botanist (1847-1905)

Arthur Francis George Kerr

Irish botanist (1877–1942)

Charles Bixler Heiser

American botanist (1920-2010)

Floyd Alonzo McClure

American botanist (1897-1970)

Vera Scarth-Johnson

British-Australian botanist and botanical illustrator (1912–1999)

Cornish plant collector (1809-1864)

Veitch Nurseries

American botanist and curator (1941-2020)

plant collecting

acquisition of plant specimens for the purposes of research, cultivation, or as a hobby

Charles Brewer-Carías

Venezuelan explorer and naturalist

merchant, explorer, naturalist, and author (1806-1850)

British botanist (1880-1921)

James Watson Robbins

American physician and botanist (1801-1879)

Romanian sculptor (1913–1980)

Henry Reynolds-Moreton, 3rd Earl of Ducie

British politician (1827-1921)

British botanist (1851-1902)

Dennis Eugene Breedlove

American botanist (1939–2012)

Charles Samuel Pollock Parish

Anglo-Indian botanist (1822-1897)

American botanist (1870-1956)

George Sydney Bunting

American botanist (1927-2015)