George Heinrich Adolf Scheele
# George Heinrich Adolf Scheele

George Heinrich Adolf Scheele (1808–1864) was a German botanist and 19th century explorer.

He was an expert on spermatophytes

Scheele was the first person to classify Cucurbita texana.

## California

An important part of his botanical specimen collections are stored in the Herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California.

