The International Bulb Society was founded on May 31, 1933 and is an international society dedicated to informing the public about the
science
Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...
botany
Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...
of
geophytic
A storage organ is a part of a plant specifically modified for storage of energy
(generally in the form of carbohydrates) or water. Storage organs often grow underground, where they are better protected from attack by herbivores. Plants that have ...
plants
Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria to produce sugars f ...
, commonly known as
bulbs
In botany, a bulb is a short underground stem with fleshy leaves or leaf basesBell, A.D. 1997. ''Plant form: an illustrated guide to flowering plant morphology''. Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K. that function as food storage organs during ...
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It began in 1933 as the American Amaryllis Society, publishing its first yearbook (''Year Book, American Amaryllis Society'') in 1934. One of its founders was
Hamilton Traub Hamilton Paul Traub (June 18, 1890 – July 14, 1983) was an American botanist. He specialized in the study of Amaryllidaceae. He also did horticultural studies on beans. Dr Traub was one of the founding members of the American Amaryllis Society (no ...
, who edited the yearbook in its early days. Two years later (1936) the title was changed to ''Herbertia''. Later the society was renamed the American Plant Life Society, and its yearbook was called ''Plant Life. Amaryllis Year Book''. In 1984 ''Plant Life'' became ''Herbertia'' again. The society became inactive in January 2014.