Genus Ximenesia
Pictures from Observations
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For José (Joseph) Salvador Ximénez (Ximenes) Peset, (1713–1803), Spanish apothecary, botanist and artist who compiled a Flora of Castellon de la Plana, in four volumes, in which he portrayed or described more than 700 plants, keeping a record of where they grew, when and whether they had any medicinal properties. He also recorded the butterflies and birds found in Castellon de la Plana on the east coast of Spain, about 71km northeast of Valencia. When the author, Antonio José Cavanilles met him, as recorded in his Observations on the Natural History of the Kingdom of Valencia, he was astonished to find Ximénez had no botanical training or books, had not seen gardens, and was extremely poor with barely enough to eat. Ximénez is said to have had an interest in the characteristics of flowers and the form of the floret, and an interest in the question of ‘sex’ in flowers.