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An English botanist of Scottish descent.
Philip Miller
Philip Miller FRS (1691 – 18 December 1771) was an English botanist of Scottish descent.
what takes over the function of photosynthesis in opuntia In the absence of leaves, enlarged stems carry out photosynthesis. what is a cactus? It is a member of the plant family Cactaceae, a family comprising about 127 genera with some 1750 known species of the order Caryophyllales. how did they evolve? Except for a relatively recent spread of "Rhipsalis baccifera" to parts of the Old World, cacti are plants of South America and mainly southern regions of North America. This suggests the family must have evolved after the ancient continent of Gondwana split into South America and Africa, which occurred during the Early Cretaceous. how do they reproduce? Cactus flowers are pollinated by insects, birds and bats. how are they classified? Botanists, such as Philip Miller in 1754, divided cacti into several genera, which, in 1789, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu placed in his newly created family Cactaceae.
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Philip Miller [SEP] Introduction
Philip Miller FRS (1691 – 18 December 1771) was an English botanist of Scottish descent. Oh no I didn't mean to delete all of it!It..Bornrn in Deptford or Greenwich Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1722 until he was pressured to retire shortly before his death. According to the botanist Peter Collinson, who visited the physic garden in July 1764 and recorded his observation in his commonplace books, Miller "has raised the reputation of the Chelsea Garden so much that it excels all the gardens of Europe for its amazing variety of plants of all orders and classes and from all climates..." He wrote "The Gardener's and Florists Dictionary or a Complete System of Horticulture" (1724) and "The Gardener's Dictionary containing the Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen Fruit and Flower Garden", which first appeared in 1731 in an impressive folio and passed through eight expanding editions in his lifetime and was translated into Dutch by Job Baster.