William Lobb

William Lobb (* 1809 in Cornwall, England; † autumn 1864 in San Francisco ) was an American botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " W.Lobb ".

Life and work

Together with his brother Thomas Lobb was William Lobb as a plant collector for the company Veitch & Sons 1840-1848 in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador, and 1849-1857 in California and Oregon go.

Among other things, he brought Araucaria imbricata, Begonia coccinea, Berberis darwinii, Cynoches pentadactylon, Patagonian cypress ( Fitzroya cupressoides ), Passiflora actinea Phalaenopsis amabilis and to Europe. Lobb published his reports and discoveries in botanical journals such as the Curtis 's Botanical Magazine.

In the Santa Lucia Mountains in California, he collected seeds of the coastal sequoia (Sequoia sempervirens). The material he handed his colleague John Lindley, it auswertete. Two weeks later, he reported a further mammoth tree species under the name Wellingtonia gigantea, named after the one year before the late Duke of Wellington. These are the giant sequoia with today taxon Sequoiadendron giganteum.

1855 honored him with the French rose breeder Jean Laffay ( 1795-1878 ) the famous Moss Rose ' William Lobb '.

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