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Ipomoea batatas

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Ipomoea batatas. See image source here.

#143 They called me Ipomoea batatas, also known as Batatas wallii, Ipomoea purpusii, Ipomoea tiliacea var. smithii, and Ipomoea wallii. I pay homage to the male botanists Purpus (I couldn’t find his records), George Wall, M. A. Wall, or Arnold Wall, and James Edward Smith, Johannes Jacobus Smith, Winifred Smith, Christo Albertyn Smith, Charles Piper Smith, Gerard Edwards Smith, Gilbert Morgan Smith, Henry George Smith, Hamilton Lanphere Smith, Albert Charles Smith, Alan Reid Smith, or William Wright Smith. They first catalogued me in 1793.

Native to Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, and Mexico Southwest.

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Opuntia stricta

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#140 They called me Opuntia stricta, also known as Opuntia bentonii, Opuntia bartramii, Opuntia dillenii var. reitzii, and Opuntia dillenii. I pay homage to the male botanists Benton (I couldn’t find his records), Dillen (I couldn’t find his records), Reitz (I couldn’t find his records), and John Bartram, Edwin Bunting Bartram, or William Bartram. They first catalogued me in 1812.

Native to Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, South Carolina, and Texas.

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Bourreria succulenta

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Bourreria succulenta. See image source here.

#132 They called me Bourreria succulenta, also known as Bourreria wrightii. I pay homage to the male botanist Charles Henry Wright, Charles Wright, Edward Perceval (Percival) Wright, John Wright, or William Wright. They first catalogued me in 1763.

Native to Aruba, Bahamas, Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Florida, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, and Windward Is..