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PALMER, Edward
PALMER, Edward (1829-1911), the son of a professional florist and horticulturist, this self-taught British botanist, explorer and collector, was born in Brandon, Suffolk in 1829.
He came to America at the age of 18. Palmer spent considerable time exploring California, Mexico, and South America. His ground-breaking botanical collections on Mexico’s Guadalupe Island are particularly noteworthy. In the field of botany Palmer is credited with the discovery of 1162 new species of flowering plants!
Edward palmer biography
Two genera and about 200 species are named for Palmer. His collections of over 100,000 specimens are located throughout the world.
Palmer’s botanical collections (over 100,000 in number) reside at research institutions all over the world including Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution, Missouri Botanical Garden, The New York Botanic Garden, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the British Museum.
The Palmer collection in the U.S. National Herbarium at the Smithsonian