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Émile Joseph Taquet
Émile Joseph Taquet (30 October 1873 - 27 January 1952) was a French missionary and botanical collector who, as part of the Paris Foreign Missions Society, travelled extensively in Korea. He is known for collecting seeds and specimens of plants native to Korea. Life Taquet was born on 30 October 1873 in Hecq, Nord (French department), Nord, in northern France. He was the son of Hippolyte Taquet and Anna Wibaille. His family made a living making and selling clogs. On 23 September 1892 Taquet entered the Paris Foreign Missions Society Seminary and studied until 27 September 1897. He arrived in Seoul via Jemulpo District, Jemulpo Port. In April 1898, Taquet was dispatched to Gyeongsangnam-do, west of the Nakdonggang River. This was his first assignment after learning the Korean language from Father Imgamilo, the first head priest of Gamgok Maegoe Sanctuary Catholic Church (formerly Janghowon Catholic Church). Taquet spent a total of 55 years in Korea. He spent 31 years as an edu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris Foreign Missions Society
The Society of Foreign Missions of Paris (, , MEP) is a Catholic Missionary order, missionary organization. It is not a religious institute, but an organization of secular clergy, secular priests and Laity, lay persons dedicated to missionary work in foreign lands. The Society of Foreign Missions of Paris was established 1658–63. In 1659, instructions for establishment of the Paris Foreign Missions Society were given by Rome's Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. This marked the creation of a missionary institution that, for the first time, did not depend on the control of the traditional missionary and colonialism, colonial powers of Spain or Portugal. In the 350 years since its foundation, the institution has sent more than 4,200 missionary priests to Asia and North America. Their mission is to adapt to local customs and languages, develop a native clergy, and keep close contacts with Rome.Missions, p.4 In the 19th century, local persecutions of missionary p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urbain Faurie
Urbain is a name of French origin which may refer to: ;Family name * Achille Urbain (1884–1957), French biologist * Georges Urbain (1872–1938), French chemist * Ismael Urbain (1812–1884), French journalist and interpreter * Jacques Urbain, Belgian scientist * Jean-Didier Urbain (born 1951), French sociologist * Walter M. Urbain (1910–2002), American food scientist ;Given name * Urbain Audibert (1789–1846), French nurseryman * Urbain Boiret (1731–1774), Canadian priest * Urbain Bouriant (1849–1903), French egyptologist * Urbain Braems (born 1933), Belgian soccer player * Urbain Cancelier (fl. 1988–2012), French comedian and actor * Urbain de Maillé-Brézé (1597–1650), French military officer and diplomat * Urbain Dubois (1818–1901), French chef * Urbain Gohier (1862–1951), French lawyer and journalist * Urbain Grandier (1590–1634), French priest * Urbain Johnson (1824 –1917), farmer and politician * Urbain de Florit de La Tour de Clamouze (1794–1868) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) is a scientific centre for the study of plants, their diversity and conservation, as well as a popular tourist attraction. Founded in 1670 as a physic garden to grow medicinal plants, today it occupies four sites across Scotland—Edinburgh, Dawyck Botanic Garden, Dawyck, Logan Botanic Garden, Logan and Younger Botanic Garden Benmore, Benmore—each with its own specialist collection. The RBGE's living collection consists of more than 13,302 plant species (34,422 accessions),Rae D. et al. (2012) Catalogue of Plants 2012. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. whilst the herbarium contains in excess of 3 million preserved specimens. The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government. The Edinburgh site is the main garden and the headquarters of the public body, which is led by Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Regius Keeper Simon Milne. History The Edinburgh bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne
Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne (12 February 1848 – 12 October 1918) was a German botanist and dendrologist born near Striegau, a town known today as Strzegom, Poland. Koehne was a professor of botany in Berlin and was a leading authority of the plant family Lythraceae. In Adolf Engler's treatise ''Das Pflanzenreich'' ("The Plant Kingdom"), he was author of the chapter on Lythraceae. He also made important contributions involving Lythraceae to Engler and Karl Prantl's '' Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien'' ("The Natural Plant Families"), as well as to Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martius' '' Flora Brasiliensis''. Another noted written effort by Koehne was the 1893 ''Deutsche Dendrologie'' ("German Dendrology"). Two plant genera have been named in his honor; '' Koehneola'' from Cuba, in the (family Asteraceae) was named in 1901, and '' Koehneria'' from Madagascar, in the family Lythraceae in 1987. Koehne edited and distributed the exsiccata Exsiccata (Latin, ''gen.'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus × Nudiflora
''Prunus'' × ''nudiflora'' (king cherry, 왕벚 ''wangbeot'', 왕벚나무 ''wangbeonnamu'' or 왕벚꽃 ''wangbeotkkot'') is a Korean native cherry tree originating from Jeju Island. It is a distinct species from Japanese native Yoshino cherry. King cherry is a Rare species, rare plant and listed as an endangered species. As of April 2017, 194 king cherry trees were growing around Hallasan, Mt. Halla in Jeju Island. According to Gen-ichi Koidzumi, king cherry is erroneously believed to be discovered by a French missionary Émile Joseph Taquet although what he discovered was a #History, different species. There have been disputes over the origin of king cherry and Yoshino cherry. Both are suspected hybrids, with doubts about the parent species. In 2007, a study conducted on the comparison of king cherry and Yoshino cherry concluded that these trees were categorized as distinct species. However, South Korean media assert that king cherry is the same species as Yoshino cherry. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abies Koreana
''Abies koreana'' (, ''Gusang namu''), the Korean fir, is a species of fir native to the higher mountains of South Korea, including Jeju Island. It grows at altitudes of in temperate rainforest with high rainfall and cool, humid summers, and heavy winter snowfall. Description It is a small to medium-sized evergreen coniferous tree growing to tall with a trunk diameter of up to , smaller and sometimes shrubby at the tree line. The bark is smooth with resin blisters and grey-brown in colour. The leaves are needle-like, flattened, long and wide by thick, glossy dark green above, and with two broad, vividly white bands of stomata below, and slightly notched at the tip. The leaf arrangement is spiral on the shoot, but with each leaf variably twisted at the base so they lie mostly either side of and above the shoot, with fewer below the shoot. The shoots are green-grey at first, maturing pinkish-grey, with scattered fine pubescence. The cones are long and broad, dark purple-blue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Henry Wilson
Ernest Henry "Chinese" Wilson (15 February 1876 – 15 October 1930), better known as E. H. Wilson, was a British plant collector and explorer who introduced a large range of about 2,000 Asian plant species to the Western culture, West; some sixty bear his name. Career Wilson was born in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire but the family soon moved to Shirley, Warwickshire, where they set up a floristry business. He left school early for employment at the local nursery of Messrs. Hewitt, Warwickshire, as apprentice gardener, and, aged 16, at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens (United Kingdom), Birmingham Botanical Gardens; there he also studied at Aston University, Birmingham Municipal Technical School in the evenings, receiving the Queen's Prize for botany. In 1897 he began work at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where he won the Joseph Dalton Hooker, Hooker Prize for an essay on conifers. He then accepted a position as Chinese plant collector with the Veitch Nurseries, firm of Jam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvard University
Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyman John Harvard (clergyman), John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Its influence, wealth, and rankings have made it one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Harvard was founded and authorized by the Massachusetts General Court, the governing legislature of Colonial history of the United States, colonial-era Massachusetts Bay Colony. While never formally affiliated with any Religious denomination, denomination, Harvard trained Congregationalism in the United States, Congregational clergy until its curriculum and student body were gradually secularized in the 18th century. By the 19th century, Harvard emerged as the most prominent academic and cultural institution among the Boston B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Arboretum
The Arnold Arboretum is a botanical research institution and free public park affiliated with Harvard University and located in the Jamaica Plain and Roslindale, Massachusetts, Roslindale neighborhoods of Boston. Established in 1872, it is the oldest public arboretum in North America. The landscape was designed by Charles Sprague Sargent and Frederick Law Olmsted and is the second largest "link" in the Emerald Necklace. The Arnold Arboretum's collection of temperate trees, shrubs, and vines has an emphasis on the plants of the eastern North America and eastern Asia, where Arboretum staff and colleagues are sourcing new material on plant collecting expeditions. The Arboretum supports research in its landscape and in its Weld Hill Research Building. History The Arboretum was founded in 1872. It was established through land and financial gifts from Benjamin Bussey and James Arnold, with trustee George Barrell Emerson facilitating its creation. Harvard appointed Charles Sprague Sar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persicaria Taquetii
''Persicaria'' is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the knotweed family, Polygonaceae. Plants of the genus are known commonly as knotweeds or smartweeds.''Persicaria''. Flora of North America. It has a , with species occurring nearly worldwide.''Persicaria''. New South Wales Flora Online. National Herbarium, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. The genus was segregated from '' |
Aruncus Sylvester
''Aruncus sylvester'', the goat's beard, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae, found from the Himalayas to the Russian Far East and Japan. As its synonym ''Aruncus aethusifolius'' it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit The Award of Garden Merit (AGM) is a long-established award for plants by the British Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). It is based on assessment of the plants' performance under UK growing conditions. It includes the full range of cultivated p .... Subtaxa The following varieties are accepted: * ''Aruncus sylvester'' var. ''laciniatus'' (H.Hara) H.Hara – northern Japan * ''Aruncus sylvester'' var. ''sylvester'' References aethusifolius Flora of West Himalaya Flora of Nepal Flora of East Himalaya Flora of Tibet Flora of South-Central China Flora of Southeast China Flora of North-Central China Flora of Manchuria Flora of Mongolia Flora of Korea Flora of Japan Flora of Primorsky Krai Flora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
