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Willdenow was born in Berlin and studied medicine and botany at the university of Halle. He was a director of the botanical garden of Berlin from 1801 until his death. There he studied many South American plants, brought back by the explorer Alexander von Humboldt. He was interested in the adaptation of plants to climate, showing that the same climate had plants having common characteristics. His herbarium, containing more than 20,000 species, is still preserved in Berlin. Jump to: navigation, search Berlin ▶(?), IPA: , is the capital of Germany and its largest city; the city is now home to 3. ... Medicine on the Web NLM (National Library of Medicine, contains resources for patients and healthcare professionals) Virtual Hospital (digital health sciences library by the University of Iowa) Online Medical Dictionary Collection of links to free medical resources Categories: Medicine | Health ... Jump to: navigation, search Botany is the scientific study of plant life. ... The Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg is located in the German cities of Halle, Saxony-Anhalt and Wittenberg. ... Inside the United States Botanic Garden Botanical gardens (in Latin hortus botanicus) grow a wide variety of plants both for scientific purposes and for the enjoyment and education of visitors. ... Jump to: navigation, search Berlin ▶(?), IPA: , is the capital of Germany and its largest city; the city is now home to 3. ... 1801 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... Jump to: navigation, search Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, Baron von Humboldt, (September 14, 1769, Berlin–May 6, 1859, Berlin), was a German naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt. ... In Botany, a herbarium is a collection of preserved plants or plant parts, mainly in a dried form. ...

The standard botanical author abbreviation Willd. is applied to plants he described. In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. ...

Works

• Florae Berolinensis prodromus (1787)
• Grundriß der Kräuterkunde (1792)
• Berlinische Baumzucht (1811)
• Linnaei species plantarum (1798-1826, 6 volumes)
• Anleitung zum Selbststudium der Botanik (1804)
• Enumeratio plantarum horti regii botanici Berolinensis (1809)
• Hortus Berolinensis (1816)