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.
June 2015 Plants named after......
- Chris L
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- Country: England
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- rodsmith
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- Country: UK
- Location: Staffordshire, UK
Re: June 2015 Plants named after......
Here's a starter, the first time this has flowered for me.
Rod Smith
Growing a mixed collection of cacti & other succulents; mainly smaller species with a current emphasis on lithops & conophytum.
Growing a mixed collection of cacti & other succulents; mainly smaller species with a current emphasis on lithops & conophytum.
Re: June 2015 Plants named after......
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...
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...
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- rodsmith
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Re: June 2015 Plants named after......
Here are some more:
Rod Smith
Growing a mixed collection of cacti & other succulents; mainly smaller species with a current emphasis on lithops & conophytum.
Growing a mixed collection of cacti & other succulents; mainly smaller species with a current emphasis on lithops & conophytum.
- Phil_SK
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- Joined: 11 Jan 2007
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- Country: UK
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- Location: Stockport, UK
Re: June 2015 Plants named after......
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
Phil Crewe, BCSS 38143. Mostly S. American cacti, esp. Lobivia, Sulcorebutia and little Opuntia
- sbunter
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- Country: Australia
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Echeveria Doris Taylor named after 18th century Spanish botanist Atanasio Echeverria Codoy
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- DaveW
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- Joined: 08 Jul 2007
- Branch: NOTTINGHAM
- Country: UK
- Role within the BCSS: Branch President
- Location: Nottingham
Re: June 2015 Plants named after......
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.
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.
Nottingham Branch BCSS. Joined the then NCSS in 1961, Membership number 11944. Cactus only collection.
- Diane
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Re: June 2015 Plants named after......
The Queen of Agaves - Agave victoriae-reginae, after our own Queen Victoria. This is the very desirable white edged variegated form:
Huernia plowesii, after the venerable Darrel Plowes, botanist and explorer, especially in the Asclepiadaciae.
Huernia plowesii, after the venerable Darrel Plowes, botanist and explorer, especially in the Asclepiadaciae.
Diane - member of Kingston branch
Growing cacti - balm to the soul!
Growing cacti - balm to the soul!
- iann
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Re: June 2015 Plants named after......
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.
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- Jim_Mercer
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Re: June 2015 Plants named after......
Named after Gordon Douglas Rowely ....