]> "curator (1975-2008) of the David C. Lam Asian Garden, a component of the University of British Columbia (UBC) Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research. Peter's professional career has been centered on the development of this unique forest garden in concert with extensive plant exploration in China." (from The Jade Garden: New and Notable Plants from Asia. By Peter Wharton, Brent Hine, and Douglas Justice. 2005). "Peter graduated with a forestry degree from the University of North Wales,Bangor, U.K. in 1973, before training as an arborist at the Merrist Wood Agricultural College, Guildford, Surrey, U.K. He emigrated to Canada in 1975 and has spent 30 years working at UBC. Peter has led or participated in nine field expeditions to China, South Korea and northern Vietnam. Lately, his prime focus was the conservation of the uniquely bio-diverse forests of southern Yunnan and border areas of Vietnam and Burma ...lived in south Surrey, B.C." (vide Douglas Justice) [collector note: UBC?] Botany Wharton, Peter Wharton, Peter P. Wharton 1951 2008