Pierre Joseph Garidel (born on 1 August 1658 in Manosque - deceased on 6 June 1737 in Aix-en-Provence), was a French botanist.

[edit] Biography

He did medical studies in Mérindol and Bicaïs. Engrossed in botanics, he became a Professor of Botany in Aix-en-Provence.

In the wake of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort and Charles Plumier, he studied plants from Provence.

[edit] Works

In 1735 he published, Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs d'Aix et dans plusieurs autres endroits de la Provence, which describes 1 400 plantes. In the preface, Garidel writes about the history of botany in Provence.

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