Month: June 2023

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Cestrum parqui

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Cestrum parqui. See image source here.

#635 They called me Cestrum parqui, also known as Cestrum adelbertii, Cestrum mandonii, Cestrum poeppigii, and Cestrum parqui var. poeppigii. I pay homage to the male botanists Albert George Ludwig Adelbert, Gilbert (Gustav) Mandon, and Eduard Friedrich Poeppig. They first catalogued me in 1788.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

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Myrsine hasseltii

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Myrsine hasseltii. See image source here.

#634 They called me Myrsine hasseltii, also known as Rapanea hasseltii. I pay homage to the male botanist Johan Coenraad van Hasselt. They first catalogued me in 1867.

Native to Jawa, and Lesser Sunda Is..

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Ipomoea cairica

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Ipomoea cairica. See image source here.

#633 They called me Ipomoea cairica, also known as Ipomoea bouvetii, Batatas cavanillesii, Ipomoea jacquinii, Convolvulus cavanillesii, and Ipomoea cavanillesii. I pay homage to the male botanists Bouvet (I couldn’t find his records), Antonio José Cavanilles, and Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, or Joseph Franz von Jacquin. They first catalogued me in 1826.

Native to Angola, Bangladesh, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, China South-Central, China Southeast, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Ogasawara-shoto, Palestine, Rodrigues, Rwanda, Réunion, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, and Zimbabwe.