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| Prospero Alpini (23 Nov) 1553 - 1617 (06 Feb) |
| Prospero Alpini was a Venetian physician and economic botanist, and the fourth prefect of the botanical garden at Padua. His work with date palms in Egypt informed him about dioecioius vs. monoecious sexual systems in plants. The plant genus Alpinia is named for him. |
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