Flora Danica, a comprehensive botanical collection containing pictures of all known wild plants native to Denmark, was initiated by Georg Christian Oeder?
plant physiology is the subdiscipline of botany concerned with the function, or physiology, of plants?
Lydia Becker, founder of the Women's Suffrage Journal, was also an amateur botanist and friend of Charles Darwin?
for helping endow a professorship of botany at the University of Oxford, James Sherard was granted a doctorate in medicine by the university in 1731?
several mountains, a chain of craters, a learned society and a botanical genus are named after Louis Ramond de Carbonnières?
the plant genus Regelia is named after the 19th-century Russian botanist Eduard August von Regel and is found only in Australia?
the Irish–Australian surveyor Robert D. Fitzgerald became so skilled in his hobby of botany that Charles Darwin corresponded with him and 4 plants were named in his honour?
Jonathan Stokes was an English physician and botanist, a member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, and an early adopter of the heart drug digitalis (pictured)?
Jane Colden was the first female botanist to describe flora in the United States?
English botanist John Ralfs amassed a collection 3,137 microscopic slides, which he left in his will to the British Museum?
botanists Haaken H. Gran and Trygve Braarud began their academic careers as research assistants at Oslo's University Botanical Garden laboratory, founded by Nordal Wille in 1895?
botanist Tomitaro Makino, despite dropping out of grammar school, named over 2500 plants and is known as the "Father of Japanese Botany"?
stems and sheaths of Korthalsia palm trees, named after Dutch botanist P. W. Korthals who first collected them from Indonesia, can be made into rope?
Richard Polwhele's polemic poem The Unsex'd Females deplored the female pastime of amateur botany due to the impropriety of learning about the reproduction of plants?
Eduard August von Regel, a 19th-century German botanist, named and described over 3,000 new plant species?
Cyril Tenison White, who authored a 42-part series on weeds, was awarded the Mueller Medal for his important contributions to Australian botanical science?
botanist Leonard John Brass was born and died in Australia, served in the Canadian Army, became an American citizen and did most of his fieldwork in New Guinea?