Daniel Gómez, botanist: ‘When we give flowers, we are giving sexual organs’

Daniel Gómez, botanist: ‘When we give flowers, we are giving sexual organs’

When the botanists of the past collected plants to classify and archive in scientific collections, they could hardly have imagined the many applications the specimens would have for today’s researchers. Daniel Gómez, 68, a biologist who has overseen the herbarium at the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology in Jaca — the country’s third largest with over 650,000 specimens — says that nowadays, one of the key questions facing these valuable natural libra…