Chen Fenghuai


Chen Feng Huai , also spelled Chen Feng Hwai, was a Chinese botanist.
Chen was born in 1900. He was the great grandson of Chen Baozhen, governor of Hunan. He once studied at Royal Botanical Garden of Edinburgh in the 1930s. After he returned to China, he held a position at Nanchang University.
He contribution greatly to the construction of botanical gardens in China. He was the director and one of the founders of the following gardens:
Chen died in 1993 and was buried at Lushan in his beloved place, both of his career and of his family residence, along with two colleagues, Hu Xian Xiao and Qin Ren Chang.