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By: Ikedi Ani-okoye.

Botany benefits

This wide diversity makes it easy for people with different lifestyles as well as interests to make and develop career in plant science. Botany opens a selection of career opportunities for both male and female. The botany field provides a more fulfilling job satisfaction in both it been fun and a benefit to others.

Hippocrates influence on Botany

Hippocrates, the "father of medicine" taught in the fourth century B.C. of the value of some 400 plants and herbs - about half of which are still in used today. Aristotle attempted to catalogue the herbs known at the time and Theophrastus, a pupil of Aristotle, created a system of inquiry into plants which was to influence botany for many centuries.

Advice on botany

Your local home and garden center has experts which will be able to easily assist you with your ficus tree care problems. These specialists have often studied botany for many years, and are well versed in the care of living ficus trees. Although simple advice is almost always free at home and garden centers, many also offer classes which you can pay to attend.

Botany in Herbal medicine

Training in herbal medicine will find that herbology and botany schools can provide them with necessary skills and knowledge to become future herbalists and herbal practitioners. Today, one can explore diverse fields of herbalism and botany through a variety of herbology schools.

CONCLUSION

Botany is the scientific study of plant life. The study of plants and botany began with tribal lore, used to identify edible, medicinal and poisonous plants, making botany one of the oldest sciences. From this ancient interest in plants, the scope of botany has increased to include the study of over 550,000 kinds or species of living organisms.