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145,000 Plants with Adventuress Ynes Mexia
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
There has hardly been another plant collector as intrepid as Ynes Mexia, a Mexican American former rancher and social worker who collected more than 145,000 specimens despite starting her pioneering botanical career only in her mid-50s.
Posted in: Botany, Hispanic American History, Science, Women's History