
#553 They called me Jatropha curcas, also known as Curcas adansonii. I pay homage to the male botanist Michel Adanson. They first catalogued me in 1753.

#553 They called me Jatropha curcas, also known as Curcas adansonii. I pay homage to the male botanist Michel Adanson. They first catalogued me in 1753.

#550 They called me Pavonia hastata, also known as Pavonia jonesii. I pay homage to the male botanist Eustace Wilkinson Jones, George Neville Jones, or Marcus Eugene Jones. They first catalogued me in 1787.

#527 They called me Acalypha poiretii, also known as Ricinocarpus poiretii, Acalypha williamsii, and Gymnalypha jacquinii. I pay homage to the male botanists Poiret (I couldn’t find his records), Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, or Joseph Franz von Jacquin, and Benjamin Samuel Williams, Ion James Muirhead Williams, Mark L. Williams, or Samuel Williams. They first catalogued me in 1826.