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Marianne North (24 October 1830 – 30 August 1890) was a prolific English Victorian biologist and botanical artist, notable for her plant and landscape paintings, her extensive foreign travels, her writings, her plant discoveries and the creation of her gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
The Marianne North Gallery of Botanic Art. The Marianne North Gallery was built in the 1880s to house the paintings of Marianne North, an MP's daughter who travelled alone to North and South America, South Africa, and many parts of Asia, at a time when women rarely did so, to paint plants. The gallery has 832 of her paintings.
Nepenthes northiana / n ɪ ˈ p ɛ n θ iː z ˌ n ɔːr θ i ˈ ɑː n ə /, or Miss North's pitcher-plant, [4] is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Borneo, where it grows at elevations ranging from 0 to 500 m above sea level. The specific epithet northiana honours the English botanic illustrator Marianne North, who first depicted the species.
Ahmed Mumin Warfa (Somali: Axmed Mumiin Warfa, Arabic: أحمد مومين وارفا) was a Somali scientist specializing in botany, who with his colleague Mats Thulin discovered the species Cyclamen somalense. [1]
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