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Botany: A Blooming History

Season 1, Episode Number 1 (A Confusion of Names)

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Released: 2011-06-07

Runtime: 59 minutes

Episode Overview

Timothy Walker, director of Oxford University Botanic Garden, reveals how the breakthroughs of Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, Chelsea gardener Phillip Miller and English naturalist John Ray created the science of botany.

Series Overview

Series which tells the story of how people came to understand the natural order of the plant world, and how the quest to discover how plants grow uncovered the secret to life on the planet.

Genres

  • Documentary

Production Companies

  • BBC Scotland (GB)

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Popularity: 0.4153

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Status: Ended

Homepage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011vf07