Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze (1843 – 1907) was a German botanist and a revolutioner of the botanic nomenclature. Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig, Germany at 23.06.1843. In his early career he became an apothecary. In his youth he already had a big interest for botany and collected numerous plants in the region of …
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Professor Rapee Sakarik is a horticulturist and orchid researcher from Thailand. Born in the year 1922 and now in his nineties, Prof. Rapee Sakarik (Sagarik, Sakrig) is still active. He created the Orchid Association of Thailand, which organizes nationwide orchid related activities and was involved in the introduction of orchids from other parts of the Read More »
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Johannes Elias Teijsmann (1808 — 1882) was a Dutch botanist and plant collector. In 1830 he arrived in Java and became the gardener of the Governor General van den Bosch. From 1831 – 1869 he was curator at Buitenzorg Botanic Gardens (Bogor, Java, Indonesia). Johannes Elias Teijsmann took part in many botanical expeditions in the Read More »
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Nathaniel Wallich (1786 – 1854) was a Danish botanist and surgeon. Nathaniel Wallich obtained the diploma of the Royal Academy of Surgeons at Copenhagen in 1807 and was also stuying botany. In the same year he sailed to India and became a surgeon in the Danish settlement at Serampore (former Frederiksnagore) in Bengal …
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Curt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (1750-1816), born at Boldekow in Pomerani was a German botanist and physician. In 1780, at the age of 20 years, he published his first small work, called Botanik für Frauenzimmer (botany for women). In 1784 he started to study theology and medicine at the university of Halle. Curt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel Read More »
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Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kraenzlin (1847-1934) was a German botanist, who appeared after Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach. He revised several orchid genera and described many new orchids, mostly from South Africa and Central- and South America. His book Orchidacearum Genera et Species has never been finished. Friedrich (Fritz) Wilhelm Ludwig Kraenzlin has been associated with the Natural Read More »
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William Roxburgh (1751 – 1815) was a Scottish botanist and surgeon. He studied medicine and botany in Edinburgh and had been a surgeon’s mate on an East India Company ship. At the age of just 21 years he already undertook 2 voyages to India. He worked at the Madras Medical Service as an assistant surgeon Read More »
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Otto Warburg (1859 – 1938), not to be confused with his distant cousin Otto Heinrich Warburg, a Nobel Prize Laureate, was a German botanist and agriculture expert. Otto Warburg was also Zionist and from 1911 – 1921 he was president of the Zionist Organisation. He studied natural sciences (botany, chemistry and zoology) in Bonn, …
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The French botanist Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré (1789 – 1854) was born at 04.09.1789 in the capital of the southwestern French department Charente, Angoulême. He studied pharmacology, chemistry and herbology at Cognac and Angoulême. From 1817 to 1820 he was the serving botanist on a circumglobal expedition. In the year 1831 Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré sailed to South America Read More »
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Olof Peter Swartz (1760-1818) was a Swedish botanist and taxonomist. He studied at the University of Uppsala under Carl Linnaeus the Younger, son of the famous Carolus Linnaeus, where he got his doctorate in 1781. In 1780 started to travel and collected about 6000 specimens. In the year 1786 he went to London, where …
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Her Majesty Queen Sirikit of Thailand was born at 12.08.1932
in Bangkok , Thailand. While she studied at a music academy in Paris,
Queen Sirikit met His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej
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Johannes Jacobus Smith (1867-1947) was a Dutch Botanist. In the year 1891 Johannes Jacobus Smith became assistant curator at the Buitenzorg Botanical Gardens in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia…
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Arthur Francis George Kerr (1877–1942) wasn´t a botanist, as he was an Irish medical doctor. A. F.G. Kerr was an orchid lover and grew native Thai orchids in his home…
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Elmer Drew Merrill (1876-1956) was an American Botanist specialized in the plants of South East Asia. In 1898 Elmer Drew Merrill received the Bachelor of Science at the University of Maine…
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Professor Dr. Tem Smitinand (1920-1995) was a Thai botanist from the Royal Forest Department of Thailand…
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Lemonia (Ravenia spectabilis)
Bulbophyllum orectopetalum
Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi Blume & Rchb. f. 1860
Epidendrum ciliare (Coilostylis ciliaris)
Man of the Earth (Ipomoea pandurata)
Dendrobium infundibulum Lindl.1859
Paphiopedilum insigne
Crimson Bottlebrush (Callistemon citrinus)
Phalaenopsis Golden Beauty
Paphiopedilum parishii
Hoya megalaster
Vandachostylis Thai Sky
Phalaenopsis violacea fo. coerulea Christenson
Oceanblue Morning Glory (Ipomoea indica)
Buddha’s Lamp (Mussaenda philippica var. aurorae)
Hoya waymaniae Kloppenb.1995
Brassia Eternal Wind “Summer Dream”
Phalaenopsis × valentinii
Hoya carnosa white
Cattleya Tainan City
Hoya macgillivrayi F. M. Bailey 1914
Monkey Flower Tree (Phyllocarpus septentrionalis)
Bulbophyllum sikkimense (Cirrhopetalum sikkimense)
Spathoglottis Citrus Cooler Sorbet