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French botanist Jeanne Baret disguised herself as a man to join Louis Antoine de Bougainville’s expedition on the ships La Boudeuse and Étoile in the 1700s, acting as assistant to the expedition’s naturalist, Philibert Commerçon. She collected thousands of plants, including, in all likelihood, the first specimen of one of the world’s most beloved flowering plants — bougainvillea.

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