Each deposited a motley assortment of plants from botanical gardens in Europe, South Africa and Argentina.
His travels took him into contact with observatories, museums, hospitals, botanical gardens.
Within the botanical gardens were ancient pine trees upwards of 10,000 years old.
Beginning in 1850 and continuing each year, ships brought an assortment of plants from botanical gardens in Europe, South Africa and Argentina, the BBC says.
A city of western Java, Indonesia, south of Jakarta. It is a resort and agricultural research center with notable botanical gardens. Population, 247,409.
"We're not botanical gardens in developing countries, so that it can be business as usual in developed countries," crows Paulino Franco DE Carvalho Neto, who leads the Brazilian delegation.
