plant hunting
Seeking wild specimens
Plant hunting is the practice of traveling to remote or foreign regions to collect specimens of wild plants, especially for scientific study, botanical gardens, or commercial cultivation.
The term evokes 18th- and 19th-century expeditions when naturalists ventured into unmapped territories seeking exotic species: Victorian plant hunters risked their lives in the Himalayas.
Modern plant hunting continues for conservation and horticultural purposes.
- botanistOne who studies flora
- expeditionOrganized exploratory journey
- specimenIndividual for examination
- collectorOne who gathers items
- seed collectingHarvesting plant propagules
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- plant hobbiesherbarium, pressed flowers, seed saving, propagation, houseplants
plant huntingplant breeding
Developing improved crop varieties
horticulture · seed production · selective breeding · hybridization · cloning
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