botanist

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Professor Rod Fensham, a botanist at the University of Queensland, said urgent action is needed to prevent the species Rhodamnia zombi from disappearing due to the fungal disease known as myrtle rust.

From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026

Baimedov, who has become an amateur botanist, tends to about 15,000 saplings, which are aimed at forming a green wall against the sand.

From Barron's • Dec. 18, 2025

The poinsettias we buy today are significantly different from the tall, gangly plants botanist Joel Roberts Poinsett discovered in Mexico in 1825, after he became that country’s first U.S. ambassador.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

It brought Chris Thorogood, a botanist at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum, to tears.

From Salon • May 27, 2025

In that same year, 1818, Caspar Wistar died, but he did gain a certain unexpected immortality when a botanist named Thomas Nuttall named a delightful climbing shrub after him.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson