Maxwell T. Masters

Who was Maxwell T. Masters?

Maxwell Tylden Masters was an English botanist and taxonomist. He was educated at King's College London and the University of St Andrews. His most famous works are perhaps Vegetable Teratology, which dealt with teratology of vegetable species, and several works on Chinese plants, describing many of the new species discovered by Ernest Henry Wilson.

The larch Larix mastersiana and the Nepenthes hybrid N. × mastersiana are named after him, among other plant species.

He was the editor of the Gardeners' Chronicle between 1866–1907, which led to him corresponding with Charles Darwin.