langs: 28 августа [ru] / august 28 [en] / 28. august [de] / 28 août [fr] / 28 agosto [it] / 28 de agosto [es]
days: august 25 / august 26 / august 27 / august 28 / august 29 / august 30 / august 31
Adiantum viridimontanum , commonly known as Green Mountain maidenhair fern , is a fern found only in outcrops of serpentine rock in New England and Eastern Canada. The leaf blade is cut into finger-like segments, themselves once-divided, which are borne on the outer side of a curved, dark, glossy ra
Torreya taxifolia , commonly known as Florida torreya or stinking-cedar , but also sometimes as Florida nutmeg or gopher wood , is an endangered subcanopy tree of the yew family , Taxaceae . It is native to only a small glacial refugium in the southeastern United States , at the state border region
#3 Teak
Teak ( Tectona grandis ) is a tropical hardwood tree species in the family Lamiaceae . It is a large, deciduous tree that occurs in mixed hardwood forests. Tectona grandis has small, fragrant white flowers arranged in dense clusters ( panicles ) at the end of the branches. These flowers contain both
Over 7,500 cultivars of the culinary or eating apple ( Malus domestica ) are known. [1] Some are extremely important economically as commercial products, though the vast majority are not suitable for mass production. In the following list, use for "eating" means that the fruit is consumed raw, rathe
Don Foreman was an Australian botanist who worked on the Monimiaceae and Proteaceae of Australia. He also helped with the editing of selected Flora of Victoria and Flora of Australia Volumes. Australian botanist Don Foreman Born 27 May 1945 Trangie , central New South Wales , Australia Died 9 March
Charles Tulasne (5 September 1816 – 28 August 1884) was a French physician, mycologist and illustrator born in Langeais in the département of Indre-et-Loire . French painter Charles Tulasne Born ( 1816-09-05 ) 5 September 1816 Langeais , France Died 28 August 1884 (1884-08-28) (aged 67) Hyères , F
Byron David Halsted (June 7, 1852 – August 28, 1918) was an American botanist and plant pathologist . [1] American botanist and plant pathologist Halsted was born at Venice, New York . He studied at Michigan State University and at Harvard (D.Sc., 1879). In 1885, he began teaching botany at Iowa Sta
Hermann Friedrich Bonorden (28 August 1801 – 19 May 1884) was a German physician and mycologist . During his career he served as a Regimentarzt (regimental medical doctor) in Köln . [1] In 1866, Stephan Schulzer von Müggenburg named the fungi genus Bonordenia in his honor. The genus Bonordeniella wa
Jason Richard Swallen (May 1, 1903 -April 22, 1991) was an American botanist specializing in grasses . [1] American botanist (1903–1991) Born in Alliance, Ohio , Swallen graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University (AB 1924) and Kansas State Agricultural College (MS 1925). He spent two summers at the Mic
#6 Ivan Nikolaevich Gorozhankin
Ivan Nikolaevich Gorozhankin (1848-1904) was a Russian botanist . His early education was in his home town of Voronezh , where he attended secondary school (1858–1865) before being admitted to the Law School at the Imperial Moscow University , before changing his enrollment to the natural sciences i
Charles Christopher Parry (August 28, 1823 – February 20, 1890) was a British-American botanist and mountaineer . British-American botanist & mountain climber (1823-1890) Parry circa 1875
Moritz Richard Schomburgk (5 October 1811 – 24 March 1891), [1] generally known as Richard Schomburgk, was a German botanist and curator of the Adelaide Botanic Garden . Schomburgk was born in Freyburg , Saxony, the son of Johann Friedrich Ludwig Schomburgk (a Lutheran minister in Thuringia ), [2] a
Olav Gjærevoll (24 September 1916 – 30 August 1994) was a Norwegian botanist and politician for the Labour Party . Gjærevoll was a professor of botany at the University of Trondheim from 1958 to 1986, and was a specialist in alpine plants. In politics, he served as Minister of Social Affairs from Fe
Mulford Bateman Foster (December 25, 1888 – August 28, 1978 [1] ) was a botanist known by many as the "Father of the Bromeliad" as he was instrumental in the discovery and introduction of many new species of Bromeliad to the United States. He also devoted his life to hybridizing and contributed wide
Henry Nicholas Bolander (February 22, 1831 – August 28, 1897) was a German-American botanist and educator. German-American botanist and educator Henry Nicholas Bolander 6th California State Superintendent of Public Instruction In office December 4, 1871 – December 5, 1875 Governor Henry H. Haight
#12 Alwin Berger
Alwin Berger (28 August 1871 – 20 April 1931) was a German botanist best known for his contribution to the nomenclature of succulent plants, particularly agaves and cacti . Born in Germany he worked at the botanical gardens in Dresden and Frankfurt . From 1897 to 1914 he was curator of the Giardini
Camillo Karl Schneider (7 April 1876 – 5 January 1951) was a German botanist and landscape architect. A farmer's son, he was born at Gröppendorf , in the Kingdom of Saxony , and worked as a gardener at Zeitz , Dresden , Berlin and Greifswald . Returning to Berlin to work in the City Parks Department
#14 Allan Cunningham (botanist)
Allan Cunningham (13 July 1791 – 27 June 1839) was an English botanist and explorer , primarily known for his travels in Australia to collect plants . English botanist and explorer (1791–1839) Allan Cunningham Portrait of Allan Cunningham Born ( 1791-07-13 ) 13 July 1791 Wimbledon , Surrey , Engla
#15 Auguste Drapiez
Pierre Auguste Joseph Drapiez (28 August 1778, Lille – 28 December 1856, Brussels ) [1] was a Belgian naturalist . The standard author abbreviation Drapiez is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name . [2] He founded with the French botanist Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint
Nicaise Auguste Desvaux (28 August 1784 – 12 July 1856) was a French botanist . [1] French botanist (1784-1856) From 1816 he taught classes in Angers , where from 1817 to 1838 he served as director of its botanical garden . [2] [3] He described the botanical genera Neslia , Mycenastrum , Rostkovia a
#17 Colin Leakey
Colin Louis Avern Leakey (13 December 1933, Cambridge, England – 29 January 2018, Lincoln , England) was a leading plant scientist in the United Kingdom, a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and of the Institute of Biology , and a world authority on beans . English scientist & academic Colin Leakey
#18 Émil Goeldi
Émil August Goeldi (var. Göldi , Portuguese var. Emílio Augusto Goeldi ) (28 August 1859 – 5 July 1917 in Bern ), was a Swiss-Brazilian naturalist and zoologist . He was the father of Oswaldo Goeldi , a noted Brazilian engraver and illustrator . Swiss-Brazilian naturalist and zoologist (1859–1917) É
Carl Johan Hartman (14 April 1790 in Gävle – 28 August 1849 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish physician and botanist. The standard author abbreviation Hartm. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name . [1] Swedish botanist (1790–1849) Carl Johan Hartman
#20 Florian Porcius
Florian Porcius ( August 28 [ O.S. August 16 ] 1816 – May 30 [ O.S. May 17 ] 1906 ) was an Austro-Hungarian ethnic Romanian botanist and administrator. Bust of Porcius in the Cluj-Napoca Botanical Garden Born in Rodna , a village in Transylvania 's Bistrița-Năsăud County , he came from a poo
Marineland of the Pacific was a public oceanarium and tourist attraction located on the Palos Verdes Peninsula coast in Los Angeles County , California . Architect William Pereira designed the main structure. It was also known as Hanna-Barbera 's Marineland during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Mar