Botanizer and obsessive collector. If I can eat the plants even better! But I definitely also appreciate the beauty, and often see beauty in plants that would never make it into ornamental gardens.
"But Hemulen did not look at the rare plant's beauty; he was absorbed in counting the anthers and petals. From time to time he mumbled to himself: 'exhibit number 219 in my collection...'" Tove Jansson: Trollkarlens Hatt 1948