Simon Binnendijk was a Dutch gardener and botanist born in Leiden.

He received botanical training under Willem Hendrik de Vriese

Willem Hendrik de Vriese

Willem Hendrik de Vriese was a Dutch botanist and physician born in Oosterhout, North Brabant.He studied medicine at the University of Leiden, earning his doctorate in 1831. Afterwards he practiced medicine in Rotterdam, where he also gave classes in botany at the medical school...

 (1806–1862) in Leiden. From 1850 to 1869 he was assistant curator at the Botanical Garden

Botanical garden

A botanical garden The terms botanic and botanical, and garden or gardens are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word botanic is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens. is a well-tended area displaying a wide range of plants labelled with their botanical names...

 of Buitenzorg in the Dutch East Indies

Dutch East Indies

The Dutch East Indies was a Dutch colony that became modern Indonesia following World War II. It was formed from the nationalised colonies of the Dutch East India Company, which came under the administration of the Netherlands government in 1800....

, afterwards serving as curator of the gardens. During his tenure in the East Indies, he participated on a botanical expedition to the Moluccas.

With Johannes Elias Teijsmann

Johannes Elias Teijsmann

Johannes Elias Teijsmann was a botanist and plant collector. He was born in Arnhem, Netherlands.Teijsmann travelled to Java in 1830 as Gardener of Governor General van den Bosch. He was appointed the Curator of the Buitenzorg Botanic Gardens the following year, a post he held until 1869...

 (1898–1882) he was co-author of Catalogus Plantarum quae in horto botanico (1855) and Catalogus plantarum quae in Horto Botanico Bogoriensi coluntur (1866). The botanical species Garcinia

Garcinia

Garcinia is a plant genus of the family Clusiaceae native to Asia, Australia, tropical and southern Africa, and Polynesia. The number of species is highly disputed, with various sources recognizing between 50 and about 300 taxa as specifically valid...

 binnendijkii and Ficus

Ficus

Ficus is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes, and hemiepiphyte in the family Moraceae. Collectively known as fig trees or figs, they are native throughout the tropics with a few species extending into the semi-warm temperate zone. The Common Fig Ficus is a genus of...

binnendijkii are named in his honor.