Edwin Cheel (14 February 1872 – 19 September 1951) was an Australian botanist and collector.
Before being appointed as a staff member of Centennial Park in 1897 he was a gardener in New South Wales and Queensland. Later he transferred to the
Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney is a heritage-listed major botanical garden, event venue and public recreation area located at Farm Cove on the eastern fringe of the Sydney central business district, in the City of Sydney local government ar ...
. In 1908 he joined the National Herbarium, and was appointed Chief Botanist and Curator from 1933 to 1936. He described plants in the Myrtle family such as ''
Melaleuca howeana
''Melaleuca howeana'', commonly known as tea tree, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the Lord Howe Island group, off the east coast of Australia. It is common in exposed areas, on cliffs and ridges, occasionally fo ...
''. Apart from the myrtles, his other main botanic interest were the
lichen
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. He has a street named after him in the suburb of
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, in the
Australian Capital Territory
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