Genus Breonadia
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For Jean Nicolas Bréon (1785–1864), French horticulturalist and botanist. He was admitted to the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris as a gardener-student, where he was trained by A Thouin and A de Jussieu (1809). He was sent to Ajaccio, Corrsica in 1813 and became the first director (1817–1831) of the Jardin du Roy (now the Jardin de l’Etat) on Île Bourbon (today Réunion Island). He compiled the first catalogue of plants on Réunion Island called Catalogue des Plantes Cultivées au Jardin Botanique et de Naturalisation de île Bourbon (1822). He also explored the east coast of Madagascar (1818) and went to the Persian Gulf, Maldives and Mauritius (1821). His health deteriorated in 1827 and he retired in 1829. Bréon returned to France in June 1833 and later became a founder (1841) and president of the Cercle d’Horticulture, which became the Société Nationale d’Horticulture. He also collected plants in the Mascarene Islands.