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botanist

[bot-n-ist] / ˈbɒt n ɪst /


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Among the millions of observations shared on the platform, the photos eventually caught the attention of botanist Anthony Bean from the Queensland Herbarium.

From Science Daily • May 18, 2026

"He's taken us all to places that we would never otherwise go. That's a huge gift," botanist Sandra Knapp, director of research at London's Natural History Museum, told AFP.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

The botanist recently visited the park and witnessed the many wildflowers in bloom, though in some places they were already beginning to go to seed.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

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

“Some parts of Oaxaca go up nine thousand feet,” T. Boone Hallberg, a botanist at the Oaxaca Institute of Technology, told me.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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