Julia Frances McHugh Morton was an American author and botanist.
15 Facts About Julia Morton
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Julia Morton was research professor of biology, and director of the Morton Collectanea at the University of Miami.
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Julia Morton was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1974.
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Julia Morton worked as a commercial artist for several years and married Kendal Paul Morton, a Canadian.
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Julia Morton proved to be an excellent photographer and photographically illustrated nearly all of her subsequent publications.
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Kendal Morton died in 1964, according to her book 500 Plants of South Florida 1974, but Julia continued their research and field work.
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Julia Morton did research into use of plants in the treatment of cancer in the West Indies at the behest of the National Cancer Institute.
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Julia Morton did research into edible plants to aid in survival situations in the Philippines and Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, and wrote survival instructions for troops.
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Julia Morton conducted surveys of cashew and other edible nut plantations in Venezuela, Colombia and Peru.
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Julia Morton became known as an expert on plant poisonings and was often consulted by local authorities.
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Julia Morton offered advice and worked to educate the public.
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Lawrence Kaplan, an emeritus professor of botany at the University of Massachusetts Boston and editor of the journal of the Society for Economic Botany, which Mrs Julia Morton helped found, said "She was the poison plant center in South Florida".
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Julia Morton continued to write, lecture, and answer inquiries at the Collectanea even after retiring.
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Julia Morton retired from teaching in 1993, after being a University of Miami professor for about four decades.
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Julia Morton was critically injured in an automobile accident on August 28,1996, and died on September 10,1996.