The Life of a Harvard Ethnobotanist

The Life of a Harvard Ethnobotanist: Richard Evans Schultes
Richard Evans Schultes was a pioneering ethnobotanist and conservationist. In this video, Mark J. Plotkin, Ph.d., explains the impact of Schultes' life and career, his time at Harvard University, and details several of the species that Schultes brought from the Amazon to the outside world.
Read More in the Feature article in the July-August 2022 issue of Harvard Magazine:
www.harvardmagazine.com/2022/...
Ethnobotanist Mark J. Plotkin, A.B.E. ’79, Ph.D., is president of the nonprofit Amazon Conservation Team (www.amazonteam.org) and host of the podcast, “Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation.”
View the Amazon Team's interactive map of Schultes' life: www.amazonteam.org/maps/schul...

[@agentbey]

Thank you for this concise and super informative presentation. A great tribute to Richard Schultes.

[@rhook]

I loved BIO 104 and "botany and chemistry of hallucinogens", and had a good relationship with Richard when he was the curator of the botanical museum . I miss Richard

[@Botanifiles]

Awesome, just graduated from Cornell, and was a self-taught ethnobotanist prior to that. My capstone was on a video compendium on the ethnobotanical and ethnopharmacological applications of various plants found in North America that I posted here on UA-cam.
Side note: If anyone knows of any opportunities where I could work on the protection of biodiversity while using my background I would be ecstatic.

[@MaxSafeheaD]

Fascinating. Loving the Plants of the Gods podcast too by the way. Thank you 😊

[@licentiousbiblesniffer6275]

fascinating

[@peterbernhardt5169]

Orchid species with blue flowers aren't rare if you know where to look (Australia). Also, let's celebrate Schultes as the author of a charming little book that defines and explains the names of orchid genera by reprinting it again.

[@vincentjacques4905]

Thank you Tim Ferris for showing me cool people for so many years

[@Tmerc28]

great talk & history. As an indigenous person I would suggest to not use phrases like "the most important explorer of the amazon" as if the native people living there weren't important because they are not giving research & samples back to predominately colonial institutions. Very much through a "white lens" although ofcourse very helpful

[@Toddis]

Mark is the bees knees 🐝 🦵