Julia Morton

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Julia F. Morton ( born April 25, 1912 as Julia Francis McHugh in Middlebury, Vermont; † 10 September 1996) was an American botanist. It was considered a world authority in the field of poisonous plants.

Life

When Julia was 15 years old, her mother and her sister died. Then took her brother, who lived in New York City, she in on. She worked several years as a commercial artist and learned in that time the Canadians Kendal Paul Morton, whom she married.

In search of unknown plants, they conducted their research trips to the rain forests of Vietnam. My interest was to explore the various medical and nutritional uses of various plants. In this context, they called the Nursery Digest, the " Grande dame of economic botany ." Only in 1973 she was awarded the Doctor of Science ( D.Sc. ) from Florida State University. She taught as a research professor of biology at the University of Miami, where he held the line of the Morton Collectanea, a research and information center for economic botany, held.

Morton was a founding member of the Society of Economic Botany. In 1974 she became a member of the Linnean Society of London. She has written 10 books and 94 scientific papers.

Writings

  • Fifty Tropical Fruits of Nassau ( 1946)
  • 400 Plants of South Florida (1949 )
  • Some Useful and Ornamental Plants of the Caribbean Gardens ( Botanical gardens, 1955)
  • The Mamey ( Florida State Horticultural Society, 1962)
  • Exotic Plants (1973), translated into French as Plantes exotiques
  • Herbs and Spices. New York: Golden Press, 1976, German: Herbs and spices.
  • Search for Carcinogenic Principles, in: Tony Swain, Robert Kleiman (ed.): The resource potential in Phytochemistry, Recent Advances in Phytochemistry Volume 14, 1980 ( Abstract)
  • The Atlas of Medicinal Plants of Middle America (CC Thomas, 1981).
  • Wild plants for survival in south Florida ( 1982)
  • Fruits of Warm Climates (1987) ( online)
Middlebury (Vermont) September 10 List of poisonous plants
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