| Overview: | Internationally-renowned Botanist.
Dr. Hu Shiu-Ying, the celebrated "walking botanical encyclopedia" who has just celebrated her hundredth birthday, is the world's authority on hollies, day lilies, brocade ferns, pawlownia, chrysanthemums and orchids. In 1946 she was the first Chinese woman to receive a scholarship from America's Harvard University to study botany, a field to which she would devote her entire life. Of the 400-odd known varieties of hollies in the world, over 300 were named by Dr. Hu, whose deep association with the plant even endears her as Holly Hu.
In 1968 Dr. Hu was invited by the Chinese University in Hong Kong to teach in the Botany Department, and to set up the university's first teaching and research specimen laboratory, making a significant and indelible contribution to the study of botany and Chinese herbal medicine in Hong Kong.
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