Luigi Aloysius Colla, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Luigi Aloysius Colla

Piemontese lawyer, politician and botanist (1766–1848)

Date of Birth: 30-Apr-1766

Place of Birth: Turin, Piedmont, Italy

Date of Death: 22-Dec-1848

Profession: lawyer, politician, botanist

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Luigi Aloysius Colla (30 April 1766 – 23 December 1848) was an Italian botanist of the late 18th and early 19th Centuries.
He was a member of the Provisional Government of Savoy from December 12, 1798 to April 2, 1799, taking his turn as chairman of the government in rotation for a ten-day term.
In 1820 Colla described two species, Musa balbisiana and Musa acuminata, that are the basis for almost all cultivated bananas.
Colla was a member of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.