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Alpini, Prospero
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Lat Prosper Alpinus
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pronunciation:
[alpeenee]
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| (1553–1616)
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| Botanist and physician, born in Marostica, NE Italy. While in Cairo he observed the sexual fertilization of the date palm, in which male and female flowers are on different trees, and described 57 wild or cultivated species in Egypt. In 1594 he became lecturer in botany at Padua, and director of the botanic garden there (1603). His De medecina Egyptorum (1591) brought the coffee plant and the banana to European attention. |
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