Pierre Nicolas d'Incarville

Pierre Nicolas Le Chéron d'Incarville (21 August 1706 – 12 June 1757) was a French Jesuit and amateur botanist.

He was a pupil of Bernard de Jussieu, whom he called "mon maître en botanique" (my teacher in botanics).

However, when the emperor was shown some sensitive plants (Mimosa pudica) that d'Incarville had grown, he was so amused that he allowed the Jesuit into the gardens.

[3] D'Incarville was on excellent terms with the emperor, and he continued to introduce many other European plants to him during his time in China.

He was not a professional botanist, but was nonetheless well educated in the field and was made a correspondent of Claude Joseph Geoffroy at the Académie des Sciences in Paris after refusing to become a foreign associate of the Royal Society.