DENDROLOGY AND SOCIETY
SCIENTIFIC NAMES OF WOODY PLANTS AND THEIR MEANINGS
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Aristotle
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Linnaeus
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Pasteur
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Theophrastus
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Detailed explanation-1: -Today is the 290th anniversary of the birth of Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish botanical taxonomist who was the first person to formulate and adhere to a uniform system for defining and naming the world’s plants and animals.
Detailed explanation-2: -¶¶Henry Santapau is known as the father of Indian taxonomy !!
Detailed explanation-3: -A Swedish naturalist named Carolus Linnaeus is considered the ‘Father of Taxonomy’ because, in the 1700s, he developed a way to name and organize species that we still use today.
Detailed explanation-4: -Linnaeus’ gift to science was taxonomy: a classification system for the natural world to standardize the naming of species and order them according to their characteristics and relationships with one another.