June 2015 Plants named after......

[Chris L]

Any plant that is named after someone famous in the hobby, or someone famous not even connected with plants. The more obsure the better.

For example : Lithops hallii or Haworthia cooperi - Harry Hall or Tommy Cooper.

[rodsmith]

Here's a starter, the first time this has flowered for me.

Notocactus rauschii

[AnTTun]

If 'obscure' is one of confitions, then (but only to encourage others) I'd like to show 'harrisia jusbertii':

First of all, I'm pretty sure its not that plant (tho I got it under that name), and second, I'm not really sure there is some Harris or Jusbert it was (supposed to be) named after. Considering that HJ is supposed to be a cultivar, I guess it can (hardly) fit to obscure condition.

Come on folks, lets give Chris something better than this...

[rodsmith]

Here are some more:

Aeonium simsii

Conophytum taylorianum ssp ernianum

Lithops lesliei

Lophophora williamsii

[Phil_SK]

Albert Einstein (1879-1955), theoretical physicist. - Aylostera einsteinii

Barkev Gonjian, Argentinian cactus collector, former president of the Círculo de Coleccionistas de Cactus y Crasas de la República Argentina and discoverer of: Aylostera einsteinii ssp gonjianii

[sbunter]

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Echeveria Doris Taylor named after 18th century Spanish botanist Atanasio Echeverria Codoy

[DaveW]

Echinocereus knippelianus named after Carl Knippel.

Gymnocalycium amerhauseri named after H. Amerhauser.

Mammillaria saboae named after Kathryn Sabo.

Mammillaria sanchez-mejoradae named after the Sánchez-Mejorada's.

Gymnocalycium baldianum named after Baldi (a colleague of Spegazzini). His real name, not a nickname because he was follicly challenged!

Turbinicarpus polaskii named after the Polaski's who discovered it.

[Diane]

The Queen of Agaves - Agave victoriae-reginae, after our own Queen Victoria. This is the very desirable white edged variegated form:

Agave victoriae-reginae

Huernia plowesii, after the venerable Darrel Plowes, botanist and explorer, especially in the Asclepiadaciae.

Huernia plowesii

[iann]

How about a plant named after two people? The genus Muiria is named after John Muir; not the American most people might think of, but the Scottish and then South African botanist. The species is named after his daughter Hortense who so far as I know had nothing to do with plants other than her father.

[Jim_Mercer]

Named after Gordon Douglas Rowely ....

Senecio rowleyanus

Senecio rowleyanus