Paul Edward Berry

Paul Edward Berry (born 1952) is an American botanist and curator. He is Director of the Wisconsin State Herbarium.

Berry received his PhD. in Botany, from Washington University in St. Louis, in 1980, conducting biogeography studies.

Berry has worked in taxonomy of the genus ''Fuchsia'' (family Onagraceae), in 110 species of this ornamental genus, from Neotropic forests, and in New Zealand and Tahiti; studying the molecular taxonomy of ''Fuchsia'' and molecular temporal analysis. He published a popular text on Native ''Fuchsia'' Species, by Timber Press in 2004.

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