WENDY WALSH BOTANICAL

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WENDY WALSH BOTANICAL

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depiction of a Romneya Coulteri W.H. Harvey Matilija poppy.

In 1845, the Irish botanist William Henry Harvey (1811-1866), Director of the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, named the genus after his friend the Irish astronomer and Anglican priest John Thomas Romney Robinson (1792-1882), Director of the Armagh Astronomical Observatory.
The specific name, coulteri, commemorates the Irish botanist and traveller Thomas Coulter (1793-1843), Harvey’s immediate predecessor as Curator of the Herbarium at Trinity College, Dublin. Moreover, in 1832, Coulter had collected the type – the specimen Harvey used to formally describe the species – in northern California, during his decade-long period of botanical exploration in Mexico and California from 1824 to 1834.
With the impressed seal of TCD (Trinity College Dublin). Signed by Wendy Walsh.
Published by Joseph E. Kelly. Framed.
Image: 56 x 40 cm. Framed: 75 x 57 cm. PICTURES AND PRINTS Tuesday 11th March 2025 Approximate Time 10:11:42

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