John Lavranos RIP
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2018 6:31 pm
Sad to announce the passing of another great plant person and friend of the society John Lavranos at the age of 91, he suffered a stroke a few days ago and slipped peacefully away last night. He was one of last of the great botanical explorers making extensive trips throughout Africa over a period of 60 years. His field collection numbers ran up to 32,000, he published 180 taxa and has 17 named after after him. I could write more but there is a great article on the pelargonium website which sums him up better than I could., RIP John.
http://pelargonium.si/wp/2017/07/31/not ... plantsman/
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