Edmond Gustave Camus, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French botanist
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Place of Birth: Paris, ÃŽle-de-France, France
About Edmond Gustave Camus
- Edmond Gustave Camus (1852 – 22 August 1915) was a French pharmacist and botanist known for his work with orchids. A pharmacist by vocation, he was a resident of L'Isle-Adam, a community near Paris.
- He was the father of botanist Aimée Antoinette Camus (1879–1965), with whom he collaborated on several projects and the painter Blanche-Augustine Camus (1881-1968).
- For a period of time, he served as vice-president of the Société botanique de France.As a taxonomist, he was the binomial authority of many species, most notably within the family Orchidaceae.
- With Aimée Camus, he described numerous species from the family Salicaceae.
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