Prospero Alpini
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title:
Prospero Alpini
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Prospero Alpini was a Venetian physician and botanist. He travelled around Egypt and served as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua. He wrote several botanical treatises which covered exotic plants of economic and medicinal value. His description of coffee and banana plants are considered the oldest in European literature. The ginger-family genus Alpinia was named in his honour by Carolus Linnaeus.
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Venetian physician and botanist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospero_Alpini
date created:
2002-02-25T15:51:15Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T00:27:18Z
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