Canary Islands
The set of Macronesian volcanic islands 1000KM west of Morocco.
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Cymbalaria muralis
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From the Latin ‘muralis’ / ‘muralis’ meaning ‘relating to walls’
Cymbalaria muralis
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From the Latin ‘muralis’ / ‘muralis’ meaning ‘relating to walls’
Euphorbia
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Gk. eu- = well; phorbe = pasture or fodder; probably after Euphorbus, Greek physician to Juba II, King of Mauretania. Juba was educated in Rome and married the daughter of Antony and Cleopatra. He was apparently interested in botany and had written about an African cactus-like plant from the slopes of Mount Atlas, which he had found or knew about, which was used as a powerful laxative. That plant may have been Euphorbia resinifera, and like all Euphorbias had a latexy exudate (milky emulsion from certain plants). Euphorbus had a brother named Antonius Musa who was the physician to Augustus Caesar in Rome. When Juba heard that Caesar had honoured his physician with a statue, he decided to honour his own physician by naming the plant he had written about after him.
Geissorhiza
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Gk. geisson = title; rhiza = root; alluding to the regular overlapping of the corm tunics in some species.
Geissorhiza
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Gk. geisson = title; rhiza = root; alluding to the regular overlapping of the corm tunics in some species.
Geissorhiza
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Gk. geisson = title; rhiza = root; alluding to the regular overlapping of the corm tunics in some species.
Lachenalia
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For Werner de Lachenal (1736–1800), Swiss professor of botany and anatomy at the University of Basel from 1776, eminent for his knowledge of European plants. He obtained his PhD in 1763. He was a pupil of Haller, who was one of his main correspondents, providing him with details of flora and their location around Basel, the Jura mountains, Alsat and Bruntrutain. He was a friend of Linnaeus. He authored several monographs in Acta Helvetica. While at the university he substantially improved its botanical garden, the oldest in Switzerland, that had fallen into disrepair. He continually strived to obtain funds to reconstruct and develop the garden and to pay for its gardener. He opened the garden to the public to cover expenditures.
Lachenalia
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For Werner de Lachenal (1736–1800), Swiss professor of botany and anatomy at the University of Basel from 1776, eminent for his knowledge of European plants. He obtained his PhD in 1763. He was a pupil of Haller, who was one of his main correspondents, providing him with details of flora and their location around Basel, the Jura mountains, Alsat and Bruntrutain. He was a friend of Linnaeus. He authored several monographs in Acta Helvetica. While at the university he substantially improved its botanical garden, the oldest in Switzerland, that had fallen into disrepair. He continually strived to obtain funds to reconstruct and develop the garden and to pay for its gardener. He opened the garden to the public to cover expenditures.
Lachenalia
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For Werner de Lachenal (1736–1800), Swiss professor of botany and anatomy at the University of Basel from 1776, eminent for his knowledge of European plants. He obtained his PhD in 1763. He was a pupil of Haller, who was one of his main correspondents, providing him with details of flora and their location around Basel, the Jura mountains, Alsat and Bruntrutain. He was a friend of Linnaeus. He authored several monographs in Acta Helvetica. While at the university he substantially improved its botanical garden, the oldest in Switzerland, that had fallen into disrepair. He continually strived to obtain funds to reconstruct and develop the garden and to pay for its gardener. He opened the garden to the public to cover expenditures.
Mandevilla
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For Henry John Mandeville (1773–1861), English diplomat, minister plenipotentiary to the Argentine Republic and keen gardener. He entered the navy when still a boy and later held a commission in the first dragoon regiment. From 1801–1803 he took jobs as an unpaid attaché. He became a paid attaché in Paris (1824), secretary to the embassy at Lisbon (1828), minister to Constantinople (1831–1833), and spent a decade as minister in Buenos Aires (1835–1845), where he mediated in the rivalry between the British merchants there and in Montevideo and managed relations with the Argentinian dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas, whom he saw as essential for maintaining stability in the country. He retired in 1845. He was responsible for introducing to Europe Ipomoea indica, commonly called ‘morning glory’.
Mandevilla
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For Henry John Mandeville (1773–1861), English diplomat, minister plenipotentiary to the Argentine Republic and keen gardener. He entered the navy when still a boy and later held a commission in the first dragoon regiment. From 1801–1803 he took jobs as an unpaid attaché. He became a paid attaché in Paris (1824), secretary to the embassy at Lisbon (1828), minister to Constantinople (1831–1833), and spent a decade as minister in Buenos Aires (1835–1845), where he mediated in the rivalry between the British merchants there and in Montevideo and managed relations with the Argentinian dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas, whom he saw as essential for maintaining stability in the country. He retired in 1845. He was responsible for introducing to Europe Ipomoea indica, commonly called ‘morning glory’.
Mandevilla
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For Henry John Mandeville (1773–1861), English diplomat, minister plenipotentiary to the Argentine Republic and keen gardener. He entered the navy when still a boy and later held a commission in the first dragoon regiment. From 1801–1803 he took jobs as an unpaid attaché. He became a paid attaché in Paris (1824), secretary to the embassy at Lisbon (1828), minister to Constantinople (1831–1833), and spent a decade as minister in Buenos Aires (1835–1845), where he mediated in the rivalry between the British merchants there and in Montevideo and managed relations with the Argentinian dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas, whom he saw as essential for maintaining stability in the country. He retired in 1845. He was responsible for introducing to Europe Ipomoea indica, commonly called ‘morning glory’.
Myrtus communis
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From the Latin communis = ‘common’