Species Robinia pseudoacacia

For Jean Robin (Ioannes Robinus) (1550–1629), French botanist, royal gardener and herbalist to King Henry III, Henry IV and Louis XIII of France. He worked at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. He published a catalogue of 1 300 species grown in 1601 under the title Catalogus Stirpium tam Indigenarum Exoticarum Quam. The Paris Faculty of Medicine appointed Jean Robin in 1597 to supervise the construction of a botanical garden. Trees planted early in the 17th century by Robin, one at Jardin des Plantes and the other off the north facade of the church of Saint Julien-le-Pauvre near the Notre Dame, still stand.