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Early America was explored for plants by hundreds of European botanists. André Michaux, France's most eminent botanist, was one of them. A world traveler, he came to America with his son in 1785, for what became ten years of exploration. He collected thousands of specimens, and his travels in North Carolina took him as far as the Black Mountains. He was the first white man to set foot in those mountains. In 1802, he journeyed to Madagascar, where he contracted a rare tropical fever and died.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 58 Issue 4, Sept 1990, p15-17, il
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5752
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Born in France in 1746, botanist Andre Michaux was sent to America by the French government in 1785 to collect seeds, trees, shrubs, and plants. In the process he roamed through 30 North Carolina counties, where he either discovered or described 300 plants. Yet, though he covered more territory than Daniel Boone and made many botanical discoveries, Michaux remains relatively unknown in this country.
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Living at Linville Gorge’s cliff are plants revealing ancient ecosystems long unknown and trees a retired Appalachian State professor believes are a millennium old. Support for his perspective of cliffs, which include their ecological as well as geological aspects, is a profile of the Table Mountain Pine, in addition to plants like Rock Tripe Lichen and Mountain Golden Heather.
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