François Botté's family have published a book about his life and passions, which includes several of my photos of him in full flow on botany outings. He truly was a force of nature and it was a privilege to have known him.
Front cover of the book.
He trained originally as an agronomist, then did his PhD in botany, on the phylogeny of wild leeks, to try to work out where domestic leeks came from.
Back cover of the book.
I knew him in the last decade or so of his life, and loved to trail around after him as we surveyed the biodiversity of different sites.
My photo bottom left. He is explaining wild leeks.
My photo at the bottom.
My photo top right.
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