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    Charles Plumier (French: [ʃaʁl ply.mje]; 20 April 1646 – 20 November 1704) was a French botanist after whom the frangipani genus Plumeria is named. Plumier...
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  • Look up plumier in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Plumier is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Charles Plumier (1646–1704), French...
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    HMS Largs (redirect from MV Charles Plumier)
    naval, army and air force crew. She was built by France and named MV Charles Plumier in 1938. Following the creation of Vichy France and Free France she...
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    Republic) about 1696–1697 by the French Minim friar and botanist, Charles Plumier, during his third expedition to the Greater Antilles. He named the...
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    flower of the fuchsia plant, which was named by a French botanist, Charles Plumier, after the 16th-century German botanist Leonhart Fuchs. The color fuchsia...
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    named in honour of 17th-century French botanist and Catholic monk Charles Plumier, who traveled to the New World documenting many plant and animal species...
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    published by Henry Charles Andrews in the eighth volume of his The Botanist's Repository. In his description he credits Charles Plumier as having published...
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    begonia Leaf of Begonia masoniana The genus name Begonia was coined by Charles Plumier, a French patron of botany, and adopted by Linnaeus in 1753, to honor...
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    species extending into temperate climates. It was named by the monk Charles Plumier after the ancient Greek physician and botanist Dioscorides. Wild Yam...
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    a passionate plant collector (he met the naturalist Charles Plumier in the Antilles, and Plumier later named the begonia after him). He was the son of...
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    Magnolia first appeared in 1703 in the Genera written by French botanist Charles Plumier (1646–1704), for a flowering tree from the island of Martinique (talauma)...
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    scientific attempt to collect and classify the genus was done by Charles Plumier. Plumier collected approximately six species from the islands of Martinique...
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    (1601–1676) Jean François Niceron (1613–1646) Nicholas Barré (1621–1686) Charles Plumier (1646–1704) Nicholas of Longobardi (1650–1709) canonized in 2014 Fra...
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  • and Fuchsia Thalia. Charles Plumier is accredited with both the discovery and naming of Fuchsia. In the early 18th century, Plumier made an expedition...
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    delicacy, are of commercial importance. The specific name honours Charles Plumier (1646-1704), a Franciscan friar and naturalist, who found the first...
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    Boraginaceae. It was first published under the name "Pittonia" by Charles Plumier in 1703, in honour of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Carl Linnaeus changed...
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    thickets. The genus was described by French botanist and churchman Charles Plumier ex L. and published in Species Plantarum 1: 191 in the year 1753. The...
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    example of the vegetable being grown and eaten in Europe. In 1703 Charles Plumier named a plant genus Matthiola in honor of Mattioli. This name was adopted...
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    of which invented a plumeria-scented perfume. The genus name honors Charles Plumier, who was a French monk of the Franciscan order, and a botanist. In...
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    Franciscan friar and naturalist Charles Plumier (1664–1704), Lacépède based his description of this species on a drawing by Plumier. The white grunt has minor...
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    make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants. Botanist Charles Plumier was his pupil and accompanied him on his voyages. Tournefort was born...
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    theologian who noteworthy for his great archaeological discoveries Charles Plumier (1646–1704) – Minim friar who is considered one of the most important...
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  • (three British, one French) and the capture of the merchant ship MV Charles Plumier in Gibraltar. This later became HMS Largs, a command ship in several...
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    It is likely that Charles Plumier collected the first Pereskia specimens from the West Indies in the late 17th century. Plumier described two species...
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  • saint (d. 1617) 1633 – Emperor Go-Kōmyō of Japan (d. 1654) 1646 – Charles Plumier, French botanist and author (d. 1704) 1650 – William Bedloe, English...
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  • 1651-1654) (b. 1613) 1695 – Zumbi, Brazilian king (b. 1655) 1704 – Charles Plumier, French botanist and painter (b. 1646) 1737 – Caroline of Ansbach,...
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  • Oakes (botanist) Alf Erling Porsild Carl Borivoj Presl Charles Christopher Parry Charles Plumier Christian Hendrik Persoon Cyrus Pringle Daniel Oliver...
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  • casting doubt on the theory of spontaneous generation. April 20 – Charles Plumier, French botanist (died 1704) July 1 – Gottfried Leibniz, German scientist...
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    also shows a correct understanding of fossils. The Franciscan friar Charles Plumier gave the name of Cæsalpinia to a plant genus and Linnaeus retained...
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    has long been recognized, namely, the rosids. The French botanist Charles Plumier named the genus Malpighia in honor of Marcello Malpighi's work on plants;...
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