botanist

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The director of conservation at the California Botanic Garden, botanist Naomi Fraga, said a superbloom is typically classified as a regional phenomenon where you see fields of wildflowers stretching across hundreds of thousands of acres.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 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

"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

Sarah Shuttleworth, a botanist with Plantlife, argues that certain intensive farming methods have contributed.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2025

"Young man," Enrico Fermi replied when a student asked him the name of a particular particle, "if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist."

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