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Plants 400 - Fritillaria sibthorpiana

Oxford's Botanic Gardens plant 121 - Fritillaria sibthorpiana commemorates the University's third Sherardian Professor of Botany, John Sibthorp. Sibthorp explored the eastern Mediterranean in the late-1780s and early-1790s, employed the botanical artist Ferdinand Bauer and funded publication of the Flora Graeca (1806-1840). Presented by Dr Stephen Harris.

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