Guillermo Kalbreyer
Collector
1847 – 1912
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Who was Guillermo Kalbreyer?
Wilhelm Kalbreyer was a German plant collector who was sent by James Veitch & Sons of Chelsea, London to collect new plants in West Africa and South America.
According to Hortus Veitchii, the Veitch family history:
"Guillermo Kalbreyer, a promising young man, twenty-nine years of age, entered Messrs. Veitch's service as a plant-collector in 1876, and his first trip was to the West Coast of Africa in search of tropical flowering and foliage plants, very popular at that time."
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