Edward Frederick Anderson
Edward Frederick Anderson was an American botanist who conducted extensive explorations in Mexico.
He was a leading specialist in the cactus family. He was Senior Research Botanist at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix. He chaired the International Organization for [Succulent Plant Study]. He was a member of the Cactus and [Succulent Society of America] and the Linnean Society of London. He was emeritus professor of biology at Whitman College, where he taught for three decades.
He collected Jasminocereus thouarsii.
Books
- Peyote: The Divine Cactus. University of Arizona Press, Tucson 1981,
- Plants and People of the Golden Triangle: Ethnobotany of the Hill Tribes of Northern Thailand. Dioscorides Press, Portland 1993,
- Threatened Cacti of Mexico. Balogh Scientific Books, Kew 1994, con Salvador Arias & Nigel P. Taylor
- The Cactus Family. Timber Press, Portland 2001,