Georges Delacroix


Édouard Georges Delacroix was a French mycologist and plant pathologist.
Beginning in 1886 he worked in the laboratory of plant pathology at the Institut nationale agronomique, where he later served as a lecturer of descriptive botany and plant pathology. In 1899 he was named director of the Station de Pathologie végétale in Paris.
His name is associated with the mycological species Aspergillus delacroixii.

Selected works

Espèces nouvelles observées au Laboratoire de Pathologie végétale - New species observed at the laboratory of plant pathology.Les maladies des noyers en France; with Édouard Ernest Prillieux - Diseases of walnut trees in France. Atlas de botanique descriptive comprenant l'étude des familles les plus importantes au point de vue économique - Atlas of descriptive botany.Les maladies et les ennemis des caféiers - Diseases and pests of coffee.Maladies des plantes cultivées; with André Maublanc - Diseases of cultivated plants.
  • * I, Maladies non parasitaires, by Delacroix.
  • * II, Maladies parasitaires, by Delacroix and Maublanc.