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I think it was a very close race, that's all i'm about to say before the government comes for me.
Theophrastus was considered the father of botany in the approximate year of 300 BC.
He was an ancient Greek thinker, a student of Aristotle and later, his successor.
He wrote two large botanical works on the history of plants and on the causes of plants which were so comprehensive that 1,800 years went by before any newer discovery in botany was made.
He established a theory of plant growth and the analysis of plant structure. He also related plants to their natural environment and identified, classified and described 550 different plants.
They are usually found in caves I believe. If that is incorrect I could try to do some research but I'm pretty sure that's the answer :)
