Robert Fortune (September 16, 1812 - April 13, 1880), was a Scottish botanist and traveller best known for introducing tea plants from China to India. Wikipedia
Robert Fortune (1812-1880) - Born in Berwickshire, Scotland, on the 16th of September, 1812, Robert Fortune was typical of many plant hunters in his day; a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a surly personality. Little is known of Fortune's early yea www.plantexplorers.com/Explorers/Biographies/Fortune/
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