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Timothy Charles Plowman ( * 17 de noviembre de 1944 - 7 de enero de 1989 ) fue un biólogo y botánico estadounidense interesado en la etnobotánica tropical. Su interés y amor por las plantas se fue cultivando mientras crecía en Harrisburg, Pensilvania.
Timothy Charles Plowman (November 17, 1944 – January 7, 1989) was an American ethnobotanist best known for his intensive work over the course of 15 years on the genus Erythroxylum in general, and the cultivated coca species in particular.
7 de sept. de 2017 · Timothy Plowman was an ethnobotanist and the world authority on the taxon Erythroxylum (coca). This genus of tropical trees and shrubs is best known for the species Erythroxylum coca L., a sacred leaf of the Andes, and also the source from which commercial cocaine is derived.
Tim Plowman was the world authority on neotropical Erythroxylum and co-principal investigator of the Flora Amazonica project from 1981 until 1987. At the time of his death at age 45 from AIDS, which he contracted as a result of pre-trip inoculations, he was curator of botany at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
Treinta años despues, a principios de la decada de 1970, Schultes envió a dos de sus alumnos más destacados, Tim Plowman y Wade Davis, a seguir sus pasos con el ánimo de investigar los secretos botánicos de la coca, la vilipendiada fuente de la cocaína, la planta sagrada conocida por los incas como Óla hoja divina de la inmortalidad".
Timothy Plowman was a plant taxonomist and ethnobotanist, a student of Richard Evans Shultes at Harvard University. His specialty was the genus Erythroxylum (Erythroxylaceae), the coca plant, the leaves of which have been chewed by indigenous people of the Andes region of South America.
11 de nov. de 2021 · Back in 2018 I did a repotting a bromeliad episode, featuring a number of bromeliads in my collection—one of which was this Quesnelia marmorata 'Tim Plowman'. Well, after three years, it's time...
