All Plant Explorers and Plant Hunters

Collectors who travelled to distant countries to find useful plants and send them home, introducing new fruit, crops and ornamental plants to farmers and gardeners. Plant exploration widened the range of crops grown in many countries and fed the work of plant breeders. A person belongs here when their cited article names them as a plant explorer or plant hunter. Many of these collectors worked for government departments of agriculture, botanic gardens or nurseries, and the plants they sent home, from lemons to ornamental shrubs, are still grown today.