Aimée Antoinette Camus
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Aimée Antoinette Camus was a French
botanist. She was best known for her study of orchids.
Camus was the daughter of Edmond Gustave Camus, also a botanist and was born in L'Isle-Adam
, about 50 kilometres north of Paris
. Under her father's influence she specialized in the study of orchids and the anatomy of the plant and worked for some time with other professionals such as Paul Bergon (1863-1912) and Paul Henri Lecomte (1856-1934).
Camus published the work "L'Iconographie des Orchidées d´Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen".
She gave the name of Neohouzeaua to a species of seven tropical bamboo, in honour of the lifelong work that Jean Houzeau de Lehaie had devoted to the understanding of the botany and propagation of bamboo in Europe and Africa.
France
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botanist. She was best known for her study of orchids.
Camus was the daughter of Edmond Gustave Camus, also a botanist and was born in L'Isle-Adam
L'Isle-Adam, Val-d'Oise
L'Isle-Adam is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France.-References:** -External links:* * *...
, about 50 kilometres north of Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. Under her father's influence she specialized in the study of orchids and the anatomy of the plant and worked for some time with other professionals such as Paul Bergon (1863-1912) and Paul Henri Lecomte (1856-1934).
Camus published the work "L'Iconographie des Orchidées d´Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen".
She gave the name of Neohouzeaua to a species of seven tropical bamboo, in honour of the lifelong work that Jean Houzeau de Lehaie had devoted to the understanding of the botany and propagation of bamboo in Europe and Africa.