Friedrich Sellow (var. Sello) (1789-1810) was a German botanist and naturalist, one of the earliest scientific explorers of the Brazilian flora. Botany is the scientific study of plant life. ... -1... The term flora has several meanings in English: Flora is a collective term for plant life; as distinct from Fauna (animals). ...

Friedrich Sellow was born on 12 March 1789, the oldest son of Carl Julius Samuel Sello, the gardener of the Royal Court of Potsdam. After learning the profession of gardener with relatives, Sellow went to work and study in the Botanical Garden of Berlin, under the patronage of its director, Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765-1812). In 1810 Sellow started a study travel to Paris, France, where he attended the scientific lectures of Georges Cuvier and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and worked at the Jardin des Plantes. March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (72nd in Leap years). ... 1789 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... A gardener is any person involved in the growing and maintenance of plants, notably in a garden. ... (This article is about the German city of Potsdam. ...   Berlin? (pronounced: , German ) is the capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,426,000 inhabitants (as of January 2005); down from 4. ... Carl Ludwig von Willdenow (August 22, 1765 - July 10, 1812) was a German botanist and pharmacist. ... 1810 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Georges Cuvier Baron Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier (August 23, 1769 - May 13, 1832) was a French naturalist and zoologist. ... Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (August 1, 1744 - December 28, 1829) was a major 19th century French naturalist, who was one of the first to use the term biology in its modern sense. ... The Jardin des Plantes is the main botanical garden in France. ...

In the next year, with recommendations and financial assistance of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859). he traveled to the Netherlands and England, coming in contact with the most prominent botanists of the time. Due to the war with France, however, Sellow was impeded to return to continental Europe for a time, so he accepted an invitation by the Russian consul, Baron von Langsdorff (1774-1852), who was serving at the time as a diplomat in Rio de Janeiro, to be part of a scientific expedition he was organizing in Brazil. After detailed preparations, and funded by British botanists, he sailed in 1814 to Rio de Janeiro. There, he and his colleagues were well received by the Portuguese colonial government in Brazil and soon started to receive a generous annual salary as an official naturalist. Sellow learned Portuguese and carried out initially smaller excursions in the environs of Rio de Janeiro. First he followed, from 1815 to 1817, an expedition led by the German prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied (1782-1867). He collected many specimens, which he sent out to London. One of the plants he discovered, Lee's Scarlet Sage (Salvia splendens Sellow), became quite popular as an ornamental summer flowers in England and Germany. 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. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity... The Napoleonic Wars are the wars fought during Napoleon Bonapartes rule of France. ... Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff, Baron de Langsdorff (b. ... Rio de Janeiro is one of the 26 states of Brazil (plus the Federal District). ... 1814 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied (1782 - 1867) was a German explorer. ... Species see List of Salvia species Sage is a term used for plants of the genus Salvia of the mint family, Lamiaceae. ...

Further financing from Prussia allowed Sellow to undertake numerous other expeditions to southern Brazil and Uruguay in the next 11 years. In these expeditions, he would travel into unexplored regions of the country, and would collect thousands of plants, seeds, wood samples, insects and minerals, in the tradition of the independent 19th century naturalist, sending them to botanical gardens in Brazil, Portugal, England and Germany. Among the seed specimens of South American ornamental plants sent by Sellow were two new species of begonia (Begonia semperflorens) and white petunias (Petunia axillaris), which became wildly popular in the summer balconies of homes across Germany, Switzerland and Austria. The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 The word Prussia (German: Preußen or Preussen, Polish: Prusy, Lithuanian: PrÅ«sai, Latin: Borussia) has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad exclave of... Divisions Green algae land plants (embryophytes) non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses vascular plants (tracheophytes) seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongue ferns seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering... This writeup is about biological seeds; for other meanings see Seed (disambiguation). ... A tree trunk as found at the Veluwe, The Netherlands Wood is an organic material found as the primary content of the stems of woody plants, especially trees, but also shrubs. ... A database query syntax error has occurred. ... This article is about minerals in the geologic sense; for nutrient minerals see dietary mineral; for the band see Mineral (band). ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Inside the United States Botanic Garden Inside the United States Botanic Garden Inside Kew Gardens Palm House Botanical gardens (in Latin hortus botanicus) grow a wide variety of plants both for scientific purposes and for the enjoyment and education of visitors. ... Species About 900 species; see text Begonia is a large genus of succulent herbs or undershrubs in the family Begoniaceae, with about 900 species in tropical moist climates, in South and Central America, Africa and southern Asia. ... Purple Petunias Petunia is a widely-cultivated genus of flowering plants, in the Solanaceae family. ...

In one of his ethnographic expeditions, Sellow accompanied the diplomat Ignaz Maria von Olfers (1793-1872), who later became the first general manager of the Royal Prussian museums. Parts of the collections of Sellow are in exhibition today in the Natural History Museum and the Ethnological Museum of Berlin, including many zoological preparations, ethnographic drawings and original diaries. Ethnography (from the Greek ethnos = nation and graphein = writing) refers to the qualitative description of human social phenomena, based on months or years of fieldwork. ...

Unfortunately, Sellow met his end very early in his life, perishing by drowning in a river in October 1831, only 42 years old. His versatile and rich contribution to the botanical knowledge about Brazilian plants remained forgotten until recently, when Sellowia, a botanical journal published in Itajai, state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, received his name. Santa Catarina is the name of several places: One of the federal states of Brazil; see Santa Catarina, Brazil. ...

External links

• H.-D. Krausch: Friedrich Sello, ein vergessener Pflanzensammler aus Potsdam. Zandera 17 (2002), Nr. 2, S.73-76. (In German)