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Hosta sieboldii

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Hosta sieboldii. See image source here.

#154 They called me Hosta sieboldii, also known as Hosta okamii, and Hosta sieboldii f. okamii. I pay homage to the male botanists Okam (I couldn’t find his records), and Philipp Franz von Siebold, or Karl (Carl) Theodor Ernst von Siebold. They first catalogued me in 1967.

Native to Japan, Kuril Is., and Sakhalin.

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Iris laevigata

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Iris laevigata. See image source here.

#25 They called me Iris laevigata, also known as Iris gmelinii, and Iris dierinckii. I pay homage to the male botanists Dierinck (I couldn’t find his records), and Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Johann Georg Gmelin, Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, or Carl Christian Gmelin. They first catalogued me in 1839.

Native to Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China South-Central, Chita, Irkutsk, Japan, Khabarovsk, Korea, Kuril Is., Manchuria, Primorye, Sakhalin, and Yakutskiya.