Susyn M. Andrews

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Susyn M. Andrews
Born1953
NationalityBritish
Alma mater National Botanic Garden, Glasnevin
Occupation Taxonomic horticulturist

Susyn M. Andrews (born 1953) is a British taxonomic horticulturist. Her research has focussed on temperate and subtropical woody plants, especially Holly and Lavender. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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The standard author abbreviation S.Andrews is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. [5]

Life and work

Andrews went to school at Rathnew, County Wicklow, Ireland, and studied at the National Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, where she graduated in 1973 with a First Class Honours in Amenity Horticulture and a Silver Medal awarded by the Irish Department of Horticulture. She continued her studies at J.Timm and Co. Pflanzen-Kolle and Johann Bruns Nurseries in Germany and then at the Hillier Arboretum and Nursery in Hampshire. She worked as a horticultural taxonomist at the Herbarium, Kew Gardens, from 1976, [6] initially in the Enquiry Unit, where members of the public could send in plants for identification, becoming Gardens Verifier in 1987. She was promoted to Higher Scientific Officer in 1988 and took part in a collecting expedition to Sabah, Malaysia, concentrating on Ilex . [7] She eventually became head of the Horticultural Taxonomy Unit. [8] [9] In 2003 she left Kew becoming a full time freelance Consultant Horticultural Taxonomist in her own practise, and teaching courses on taxonomy for gardeners. [2]

Andrews has a long-term taxonomic research project into Ilex of Southeast Asia and in cultivation, as well as collaborating on Aquifoliaceae for Kubitzki's Families & Genera of Vascular Plants. [10]

Andrews was co-founder in 1988 and chairman (1988-1998) of (HORTAX), the Horticultural Taxonomy Group, a member of the editorial committee of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, the senior editor of Taxonomy of Cultivated Plants (1999), is an Honorary Research Associate at Kew, and sat on the ISHS Commission for Nomenclature and Registration. [2]

Her work on lavender and holly has been recognised by the Holly Society of America who awarded her the Wolf-Fenton Award (1991) and The Shiu-ying Hu Award (2004). [11] She was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society (2012), [12] [13] and the George Brown Memorial Award (2016) by the Kew Guild. [2]

Personal life

In 1988 she married Brian Schrire in South Africa. [7]

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  1. ↑ "CONTRIBUTORS". Curtis's Botanical Magazine. 12 (4): 247–248. 1995. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8748.1995.tb00526.x. JSTOR   45065136 – via JSTOR.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Hart, Allan (2016). "The George Brown Memorial Award Susyn Andrew". The Journal of the Kew Guild. 16 (120): 568 – via ISSUU.
  3. ↑ "Andrews, Susyn M." International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
  4. ↑ "Index of Botanists - Andrews, Susyn M." Harvard University Herbaria . Harvard University . Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  5. ↑ International Plant Names Index.  S.Andrews.
  6. ↑ "Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Scientific, Technical and Administrative Staff". Kew Bulletin. 32 (4): 863–872. 1978. JSTOR   4109792 – via JSTOR.
  7. 1 2 Sands, Martin (1989). "NEWS OF KEWITES AT HOME AND ABROAD IN 1988" (PDF). The Journal of the Kew Guild. 10 (93): 783 – via Kew Guild.
  8. ↑ Kingsbury, Noel (4 January 2008). "Plant taxonomy made easy". The Telegraph.
  9. ↑ "Kew Gardens Staff List". The Journal of the Kew Guild: 191. 1998 – via ISSUU.
  10. ↑ "Andrews, Susyn". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Archived from the original on 14 January 2012.
  11. ↑ "Awards". Holly Society of America. 2021. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
  12. ↑ "More RHS Honours for British gardening women". Gardening Women. 13 June 2012. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
  13. ↑ Hepper, Nigel (2013). "News of Kewites at Home and Abroad" (PDF). Journal of the Kew Guild. 16 (117): 245–246 – via The Journal of Kew Guild.
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