Furiously Crimson. Ipomoea quamoclit, Cardinal Cypress Vine, Paramaribo, Suriname
Yes! he was absolutely furious with great Carolus Linneus was José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez (1737-1799). Alzate was a great partisan of everything New Spanish, that is in his case particularly Spanish Mexican. He'd been trained for the priesthood and turned into a mapmaker, geographer, naturalist, ethnographer, linguist of Mexico. And was also a great partisan of Nahuatl, an Aztec language.
He was entirely opposed to the 'new' classification system invented by Linnaeus. He claimed that it had no eye for the particulars and the unique individuality of Mexican nature. Moreover, he was utterly angry that Linnaeus and his followers used words derived from Latin and Greek to name plants thus suggesting the Mexican ones were mere variations of European plants. And finally he was livid because Linnaeus emphasised the sexuality of plants in his classification thereby 'demoralising' or even 'immoralising' nature.
Linnaeus did, however, give this Ipomoea the specific name 'quamoclit', which is said to derive from the Nahuatl, so much on Alzate's mind.
Our Bright Morning Glory is all over the Tropical World, and I've seen it in Southeast Asia, in Australia and in many other hot places. Now on a morning stroll in northern Paramaribo it was furiously wild along the Anton Dragtenweg.
Furiously Crimson. Ipomoea quamoclit, Cardinal Cypress Vine, Paramaribo, Suriname
Yes! he was absolutely furious with great Carolus Linneus was José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez (1737-1799). Alzate was a great partisan of everything New Spanish, that is in his case particularly Spanish Mexican. He'd been trained for the priesthood and turned into a mapmaker, geographer, naturalist, ethnographer, linguist of Mexico. And was also a great partisan of Nahuatl, an Aztec language.
He was entirely opposed to the 'new' classification system invented by Linnaeus. He claimed that it had no eye for the particulars and the unique individuality of Mexican nature. Moreover, he was utterly angry that Linnaeus and his followers used words derived from Latin and Greek to name plants thus suggesting the Mexican ones were mere variations of European plants. And finally he was livid because Linnaeus emphasised the sexuality of plants in his classification thereby 'demoralising' or even 'immoralising' nature.
Linnaeus did, however, give this Ipomoea the specific name 'quamoclit', which is said to derive from the Nahuatl, so much on Alzate's mind.
Our Bright Morning Glory is all over the Tropical World, and I've seen it in Southeast Asia, in Australia and in many other hot places. Now on a morning stroll in northern Paramaribo it was furiously wild along the Anton Dragtenweg.