Alice Eastwood
Famous botanist who collaborated with Reason Alpha Plaskett collecting plant specimens in Big Sur region. Curator at California Academy of Sciences. Named several plants after Plaskett family members.
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Plasketts Among Early Coast Settlers
How the valley was settled: William Lucas Plaskett's family clearing lilac 'grown to the dimension of small trees' — her classic account of the family's beginning.
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Alice Eastwood and Reezy Plaskett: The Plants of the Plaskett Coast
In five months of collecting, a self-taught Big Sur carpenter sent Alice Eastwood six plants new to science — and she named two of them for him.
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Reason Plaskett - Church Builder and Plant Collector
Born in a mining camp, Reason Plaskett built churches with one hand and collected rare plants with the other.