John Fraser

Botanist from scotland (1750-1811).

John Fraser, FLS, F.R.H.S., (14 October 1750 – 26 April 1811) was a Scottish botanist who collected plant specimens around the world, from North America and the West Indies to Russia and points between, with his primary career activity from 1780 to 1810. Fraser was a commissioned plant collector for Catherine, Czar of Russia in 1795, Paul I of Russia in 1798, and for the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna in 1806; he issued nursery catalogues c. 1790 - 1796 and had an important herbarium that was eventually sold to the Linnean Society.

Abbreviations: Fraser
Occupations: businessperson, botanist
Citizenships: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Dates: 1750-10-14T00:00:00Z – 1811-04-26T00:00:00Z
Birth place: Inverness
Direct attributions: 1 plant, 0 fungi
Authorship mentions: 2 plants, 0 fungi

1 plant attributed, 1 plant contributed to2 plants:

Thalia dealbata (Powdery Alligator-flag) Fraser 1794
plant species in the marantaceae family
Thalia dealbata, the powdery alligator-flag, hardy canna, or powdery thalia, is an aquatic plant in the family Marantaceae, native to swamps, ponds and other wetlands in the southern and central United States. Its range includes much of Coastal Plains and the lower Mississippi Valley (States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky). The plant has been grown as an aquatic ornamental because of the pretty violet flowers, and in cultivation has been proved hardy as far north as Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) and
Rhapidophyllum hystrix (Needle Palm) (Fraser ex Thouin) H.Wendl. & Drude 1876
plant species in the arecaceae family
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