Henry William Ravenel
United States botanist
Died when: 73 years 59 days (877 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Henry William Ravenel (May 19, 1814 – July 17, 1887) was an American planter and botanist.He studied fungi and cryptogams in South Carolina, discovering a large number of new species.
The genus is named after him, along with many of the species he discovered.
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License