botanist

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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

"My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant," says Kobe University botanist Kenji Suetsugu.

From Science Daily • Dec. 14, 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

The book came from the family library of Hubert Priestley who was a famous botanist in the 1930s and brother to the Antarctic explorer and geologist, Sir Raymond Edward Priestley.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2025

In January 1844, he wrote to his friend Joseph Hooker, a botanist, that he was working on a theory about the origin of species.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman