Great-great-grand-niece of Ireland's first female botanist highlights achievements of Ellen Hutchins

“It really is the highest form of respect to be given to any scientist,” says Madeline Hutchins of her great-great-grand-aunt Ellen Hutchins, who had a number of plants named after her.

As Ireland’s first female botanist, Ellen conducted a jaw-dropping amount of research in her eight short years of botanising, before her untimely death after years of ill-health at the young age of 29.