Month: May 2023

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Onosma frutescens

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Onosma frutescens. See image source here.

#586 They called me Onosma frutescens, also known as Onosma tournefortii. I pay homage to the male botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. They first catalogued me in 1792.

Native to East Aegean Is., Greece, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, and Turkey.

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Pseudophoenix sargentii

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Pseudophoenix sargentii. See image source here.

#585 They called me Pseudophoenix sargentii, also known as Chamaephoenix sargentii, and Cyclospathe northropii. I pay homage to the male botanists Northrop (I couldn’t find his records), and Charles Sprague Sargent, or Henry Winthrop Sargent. They first catalogued me in 1886.

Native to Bahamas, Belize, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Florida, Haiti, Mexico Southeast, Puerto Rico, Turks-Caicos Is., and Windward Is..

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Carex middendorffii

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Carex middendorffii. See image source here.

#584 They called me Carex middendorffii. I pay homage to the male botanist Alexander von Middendorff. They first catalogued me in 1868.

Native to Japan, Kamchatka, Kuril Is., Manchuria, Primorye, and Sakhalin.