Barthélémy Victor Rantonnet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French horticulturist and botanist
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Place of Birth: Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
About Barthélémy Victor Rantonnet
- Barthélémy Victor Rantonnet (1797-1871), gardener, horticulturalist and French nurseryman, a pioneer in the acclimatisation of plants on Côte d'Azur, and worked in the garden that Jean-Baptiste Fihle de Sainte-Anne had created in Hyères (Var).
- He became interested in the acclimatisation of plants, and transformed the garden into a commercial plant nursery, named "Jardin Filhe" in honour of its former proprietor.
- He published, among other things, "Jardin d'acclimatation, Catalogue des végétaux exotiques".
- Solanum rantonnei was named in his honour and later synonymised with Lycianthes rantonnetii.In 1883, Charles Huber bought Rantonnet's garden.
- Hyères became an important centre for the acclimatisation of palms and many residents created their own gardens of exotic plants : Jacques Nicolas Ernest Germain de Saint-Pierre (château Saint-Pierre des Horts), Alphonse Denis (château Denis), Gustave Bonnet (villa Marguerite) and Gustave Charles Ferdinand de Bonstetten (villa Mathilde).
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