Species Mesembryanthemum haworthii
Pictures from Observations
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Named after Adrian Hardy Haworth (1768-1833) from Hull, Yorkshire, England. He was an entomologist and botanist who collected over 20 000 plants. A succulent collector who described many South African succulents from the plants he grew in London, Haworth made a vast contribution to the botanical exploration of southern Africa without ever leaving England. The genus Haworthia is named after him.
Elected F.L.S. in 1798; he lived in Chelsea 1793–1812; at Cottingham near Hull 1812–1817, then returned to Chelsea; corresponded with most of the great collectors of succulents of the day e.g. Van Marum, Salm-Dyck. Publications of note in this regard include Observations on the genus Mesembryanthemum (1795); Miscellanea naturalia (1803); Synopsis plantarum succulentarum (1812); Revisiones plantarum succulentarum (1821) and a long series of miscellaneous works and papers in The Philosophical Magazine. Much of his collection was destroyed by H.B. Fielding after examining them, the remnants of which are now in OXF.