Talk:Odoardo Beccari

A fact from Odoardo Beccari appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 November 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Odoardo Beccari was an Italian naturalist best known for discovering the titan arum, the plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world, in Sumatra in 1878?

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I have removed the info box from the first paragraph as it informs of nothing new, and in fact looked rather like an Italian gravestone complete with fading photograph - all we needed was a few half dead flowers and the scene would be complete. Giano | talk 18:49, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please change the references to the persons Mr. Beccari met while at Kew (both of them are wrong (William Jackson Hooker and Joseph Dalton Hooker) are the correct one's) pleasecheck Wikipedia Italian entry {(D. Peterson) March 11, 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.3.231.186 ([[User talk:65.3.231.186|talk]]) 20:57, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]