| Intro | Mycologist and scientific illustrator | ||||||
| A.K.A. | R.E.B., Ruth E. Berkeley | ||||||
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Artist Illustrator Scientific illustrator Biologist Mycologist Scientist |
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| From | England | ||||||
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Arts Biology Creativity Journalism Science |
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| Gender | female | ||||||
| Birth | 1846, King’s Cliffe, United Kingdom | ||||||
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Ruth Ellen Berkeley was an English scientific botanical illustrator. She is known for illustrations of British fungi, one of which her father, mycologist Miles Joseph Berkeley named for her: Agaricus ruthae (now known as Pleurotus ruthae).
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Ruth’s illustration of the fungus that bears her name; her initials appear at bottom of the plate.
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