From Plant Press, Vol. 28, No. 1, January 2025.
When Jimmy Carter (1924-2024) passed away on December 29, 2024, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History used social media to honor him.
To mark his passing and to recognize that Carter rose from Georgia peanut farmer to the 39th president of the United States, the museum used an illustration of a peanut plant (Arachis hypogaea), which was drawn by Department of Botany illustrator Alice Tangerini.
The illustration was drawn in 1975 at the request of Edward Ayensu who included it in his article, “Africa in the American Presence,” a paper from the international conference The United States in the World held in 1976 in Washington, DC.
Illustration of a peanut plant (Arachis hypogaea) by Alice Tangerini.
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