A Rose by any other name: New plant named after the brilliant botanist who discovered it 25 years after her death at just 43
The preserved specimen of Salvia clementiae.
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A brilliant botanist who believed she had identified a new species of plant but died before she could prove her theory has had it named in her honour 25 years later.
Rose Clement, a scientist at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, suspected she had found a previously unknown species while detailing the plants of Bhutan, on the eastern slopes of the Himalayas.