Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva
The Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the city of Geneva is a museum and an institution of the City of Geneva.
Greenhouse of botanical Garden in 2019
Augustin Pyramus de Candolle
Augustin Pyramus de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched de Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at a herbarium. Within a couple of years de Candolle had established a new genus, and he went on to document hundreds of plant families and create a new natural plant classification system. Although de Candolle's main focus was botany, he also contributed to related fields such as phytogeography, agronomy, paleontology, medical botany, and economic botany.
Portrait by Joseph Hornung, 1839
de Candolle family home in Geneva