William Aiton (1731 – 2 February 1793) was a Scottish botanist. Aiton was born near Hamilton. Having been regularly trained to the profession of a gardener...
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Aiton may refer to: Aiton (surname) Standard author abbreviation of William Aiton (1731 – 1793), Scottish botanist Aiton, Cluj, a commune in Romania Aiton...
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William Aiton (1731–1792) was a Scottish botanist. William Aiton may also refer to: William Townsend Aiton (1766–1849), English botanist William Aiton...
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William Townsend Aiton FRHS FLS (2 February 1766 – 9 October 1849) was an English botanist. He was born at Kew on 2 February 1766, the eldest child of...
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Hortus Kewensis (section William Aiton's edition)
Augusta expanded its gardens still further in cooperation with Bute and William Aiton. The first edition of Hortus Kewensis was published in Latin in 1768...
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William Aiton (9 January 1760 – 8 July 1847) was a Scottish law agent, agriculturalist and sheriff-substitute of the county of Lanark. He was an authority...
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Vaccinium macrocarpon (category Taxa named by William Aiton)
Flora of North America, Vaccinium macrocarpon Aiton, 1789. Cranberry, canneberge gros fruits Aiton, William. 1789. Hortus Kewensis, or, A catalogue of the...
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Jasminum sambac (category Taxa named by William Aiton)
sambac in the first edition of his famous book Systema Naturae. In 1789, William Aiton reclassified the plant to the genus Jasminum. He also coined the common...
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Allium tricoccum (category Taxa named by William Aiton)
tricoccum was first named as such in 1789 by the Scottish botanist William Aiton, in Hortus Kewensis, a catalog of plants cultivated in London's Kew...
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Solanum muricatum (category Taxa named by William Aiton)
number of other fruits as well. "Solanum muricatum Aiton — the Plant List". "Solanum muricatum [Aiton ]". Popenoe (1989): pp.296-305 CRFG (1996) Berrin...
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literature by the Scottish botanist William Aiton in his 1789 work Hortus Kewensis as a variety of P. orientalis. Aiton described this variety with a two-word...
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Paul Aiton, Papua New Guinean rugby league player William Aiton (1731–1793), Scottish botanist for whom the standard author abbreviation "Aiton" is used...
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Solidago gigantea (category Taxa named by William Aiton)
gigantea Aiton". Plants of the World Online (powo.science.kew.org). Kew, London: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 6 February 2021. Aiton, W. (1789)...
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John Aiton D.D. (June 1797 – 1863) was a Scottish religious writer. He was the youngest son of William Aiton, a sheriff-substitute of Lanarkshire, and...
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Andre Thouin at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris and Scottish botanist William Aiton at Kew Gardens. That same year, John Fraser, English nurseryman and...
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Neolithic introduction. The red-flowered variant, named A. unedo rubra by William Aiton in 1785, was discovered growing wild in Ireland in 1835.[citation needed]...
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Symphyotrichum patens (category Taxa named by William Aiton)
botanist Jonas Carlsson Dryander and published by Scottish botanist William Aiton in 1789. It was transferred to the genus Symphyotrichum in 1995 by American...
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Europe in 1777 by Edward Whitaker Gray from Brazil, as documented by William Aiton in his Hortus Kewensis (1789). It was described by Charles Louis L'Héritier...
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unsurpassed in breadth in his lifetime. He trained William Aiton, who later became head gardener at Kew, and William Forsyth, after whom Forsythia was named. The...
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trees occur naturally and some of these are also propagated. In 1789 William Aiton described the grey poplar as a variety of Populus alba, P. alba var...
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Ocotea foetens (category Taxa named by William Aiton)
foetens (Aiton) Baill. Synonyms Borbonia foetens (Aiton) J.Presl Laurus till Poir. Mespilodaphne foetens (Aiton) Meisn. Oreodaphne foetens (Aiton) Nees....
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Heritiera littoralis (category Taxa named by William Aiton)
dispersal. This species was first described by the Scottish botanist William Aiton in 1789, who at the time was the director of the botanical garden at...
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Allocasuarina torulosa (category Taxa named by William Aiton)
3–0.4 in) long. Forest oak was first formally described in 1789 by William Aiton, who gave it the name Casuarina torulosa in Hortus Kewensis from specimens...
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formally described by the botanist Robert Brown in 1813 as a part of the William Aiton work Hortus Kewensis. It was reclassified as Racosperma melanoxylon...
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subject and in return asked for a gift of apples, pecans and cranberries. William Aiton, a Scottish botanist, included an entry for the cranberry in volume...
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Aiton, designated by van der Walt should be the lectotype species. Furthermore, P. hirsutum is not currently recognised as an accepted name. William Aiton...
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exploring, collecting and organising work. in 1841 he succeeded William Townsend Aiton as Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He expanded the gardens...
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Argyroderma testiculare (category Taxa named by William Aiton)
Clade: Eudicots Order: Caryophyllales Family: Aizoaceae Genus: Argyroderma Species: A. testiculare Binomial name Argyroderma testiculare (Aiton) N.E.Br....
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Diocese of the Isles William Aiton (disambiguation), several people William de Corbeil (c. 1070–1136), Archbishop of Canterbury William of Malmesbury (died...
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Islands, the Savage Islands and Cape Verde. The species was described by William Aiton and was published in Hortus Kewensis in 1789. Its Spanish names are...
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