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written on Jul 06, 2020

The genus Haworthia now has a literature which goes back in time ~300 years. This is vast in its content and interesting for its demonstration of botanical thinking and fashion, and for the personalities that have been involved.

Watercolors painted by Gerhard Marx from the collection of David Martin

Andrian Haworth

Andrian Hardy Haworth (1768-1833) was born in Cottingham, England. He was trained for the legal profession at an early age but quickly abandoned this career ...
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Prince Salm-Dyck

Joseph Franz Maria Anton Hubert Ignatz Fürst und Altgraf zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck (1773-1861) was born in Schloss Dyck, Germany. He was the owner of the ...
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Henri Duval

Henri August Duval (1777-1814) was born in Alençon, France. He was a physician and lived a period shortly after when Cape plants were in vogue (roughly ...
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John Baker

John Gilbert Baker (1834-1920) was born in Guisborough, England. He had been the Keeper of the Herbarium of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew for 43 years ...
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Alwin Berger

Alwin Berger (1871-1931) was born in Möschlitz, Germany. He worked as a gardener and curator in a number of botanical gardens and nurseries, including 17 years ...
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Gerald Smith

Gerald Graham Smith (1892-1976) was born in Grahamstown, South Africa. He had been a managing director of an engineering works for ~30 years, and worked ...
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Karl von Poellnitz

Karl Joseph Leopold Arndt von Poellnitz (1896-1945) was born in Oberlödla, Germany. He was severely impacted by illness at his early time, resulting in limp ...
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A.J.A. Uitewaal

Antonius Josephus Adrianus Uitewaal (1899-1963) was born in Utrecht, Netherlands. He worked as a reproduction photographer. After becoming interested in ...
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Flávio Resende

Flávio Ferreira Pinto de Resende (1907-1967) was born in Cinfães, Portugal. He was a professor at the University of Lisbon and also director of the ...
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Charles Scott

Charles Leslie Scott (1913-2001) was born in Oudtshoorn, South Africa. He joined the police force and later became Officer Commanding of the South African ...
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Gordon Rowley

Gordon Douglas Rowley (1921-2019) was born in London, England. He taught horticultural botany at Reading University. Rowley served as the first president of ...
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John Pilbeam

John William Pilbeam (1931-) was born in England. He worked as a government officer and after retirement, continues running a nursery named 'Connoisseurs' ...
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Bruce Bayer

Martin Bruce Bayer (1935-) was born in Empangeni, South Africa. He worked as a curator of the Karoo Botanical Garden in Worcester and later a research ...
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John Manning

John Charles Manning (1962-) was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He is a botanist at South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), researching ...
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Ronell Klopper

Ronell Renett Klopper (1974-) was born in Randfontein, South Africa. She is a plant taxonomist at the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) ...
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Sean Gildenhuys

Sean Dean Gildenhuys (1983-) was born in Mbombela, South Africa. He worked in Gariep Plants and Kambroo Plants nurseries ...
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