The true story of Ynes Mexia, a Mexican-American botanist whose passion for plants led her on great expeditions, despite being in her early 50s, to gather flowers and plant samples for museums and universities around the world. Ynes went on to collect more than 100,000 specimens, including the elusive wax palm tree, which forever changed the world of botany, thus solidifying her place as the Queen of Leaves.
- ISBN: 9781959244011
- Author: Stephen Briseno
- Illustrator: Isabel Munoz
- Published: 2023 , The Innovation Press
- Themes: Botany, Latinx, Plants, Women in history, women in science
- Descriptors: Biography - Autobiography- Memoir, Latinx in US, Nonfiction, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), United States
- No. of pages: 48