Bougainvillea
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Entre 1766 et 1769, la Boudeuse, commandée par Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, sillonne les mers du monde. A son bord, Philibert de Commerson, célèbre botaniste français. Il découvre, au cours d’une escale au Brésil, une magnifique plante fleurie à laquelle, tout naturellement, il donne le nom du navigateur.
November 15, 1766. Louis Antoine de Bougainville leaves the port of Nantes aboard the frigate La Boudeuse, for a trip around the world, which will last 3 years.. Mandated by King Louis XV, the objective of the trip is multiple: to discover new lands suitable for the foundation of new counters, to open a new route to China, to check the longitudes and latitudes of lands already discovered, to search for new plants of spices.
A scientific team: cartographer, astronomer, botanist, boarded a second boat, the Star and joined La Boudeuse in the bay of Rio de Janeiro, in June 1767. Philibert Commerson, a naturalist, carried out his first botanical explorations and discovered a shrub with opulent flowering He named it Bougainvillea in honor of the leader of the expedition.
Bougainvillea
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Entre 1766 et 1769, la Boudeuse, commandée par Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, sillonne les mers du monde. A son bord, Philibert de Commerson, célèbre botaniste français. Il découvre, au cours d’une escale au Brésil, une magnifique plante fleurie à laquelle, tout naturellement, il donne le nom du navigateur.
November 15, 1766. Louis Antoine de Bougainville leaves the port of Nantes aboard the frigate La Boudeuse, for a trip around the world, which will last 3 years.. Mandated by King Louis XV, the objective of the trip is multiple: to discover new lands suitable for the foundation of new counters, to open a new route to China, to check the longitudes and latitudes of lands already discovered, to search for new plants of spices.
A scientific team: cartographer, astronomer, botanist, boarded a second boat, the Star and joined La Boudeuse in the bay of Rio de Janeiro, in June 1767. Philibert Commerson, a naturalist, carried out his first botanical explorations and discovered a shrub with opulent flowering He named it Bougainvillea in honor of the leader of the expedition.