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Tiny violet a big find for UW-Madison botany legend

More than 50 years ago, (now-emeritus UW-Madison botany professor) Hugh Iltis crouched high in the Peruvian Andes to search for a dropped camera filter and found a patch of tiny pinkish violets no bigger than a penny growing in a spot so remote it?s possible no one had seen that type of flower before or since.