What'S It Like To Be A Best Gifts For A Botanist?

by Anthony

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Posted on 05-08-2020 03:36 AM

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Guest article for the tallahassee democrat january 3, 2020, release for the tallahassee democrat by karen rose many of us can barely tell an oak from a hickory, let alone a lilium superbum from a lilium michauxii. I think all botanists are amazing, but at 84, loran anderson is, without question, a living treasure. He can walk just about anywhere on this continent and name just about every single plant by name. Its english name and its latin name.

Working in botanic gardens and plant conservation ?

James s. Miller is the dean and vice president for science at the new york botanical garden. This job entails managing all of the research and conservation programs at nybg — one of the three largest botanical research programs at gardens in the world. After discovering our common interest in madagascar’s flora (i worked as a conservation volunteer there for five weeks), i just couldn’t resist interviewing this influential plant scientist. The following conversation has been edited for length and content.

Plant anatomy and morphology [ edit ]

Theophrastus , a greek philosopher who first studied with plato and then became a disciple of aristotle , is credited with founding botany. Only two of an estimated 200 botanical treatises written by him are known to science: originally written in greek about 300 bce, they have survived in the form of latin manuscripts, de causis plantarum and de historia plantarum. His basic concepts of morphology , classification, and the natural history of plants, accepted without question for many centuries, are now of interest primarily because of theophrastus’s independent and philosophical viewpoint.

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