Yellow-haired. Schaueria flavicoma, Golden Plume, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Well, yes! Here in The Netherlands we've gone again into a strict Covid-19 lockdown until mid-January. So everything except for grocery stores and the like is off-limits. That includes the Hortus Botanicus. This'll be my last posting from the Hortus until the lockdown opens up again...
The photo shows yellow-haired (flavicoma) Schaueria from Brazil, named for Johannes Conrad Schauer (1813-1948). In the early-1830s he worked as a botanist in Wrocław, Poland, where he befriended Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776-1858) who in 1838 named Schaueria for him.
There's been some confusion as to the precise name of our plant but it was resolved by Nicholas Edward Brown (1849-1934) in The Gardeners' Chronicle n.s. 19 (1883), p.14, who untangles the Justicia-Schaueria mess.
I thought I'd put in the inset to show the pistil and stamens. The long pistil guards against self-fertilisation.
Yellow-haired. Schaueria flavicoma, Golden Plume, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Well, yes! Here in The Netherlands we've gone again into a strict Covid-19 lockdown until mid-January. So everything except for grocery stores and the like is off-limits. That includes the Hortus Botanicus. This'll be my last posting from the Hortus until the lockdown opens up again...
The photo shows yellow-haired (flavicoma) Schaueria from Brazil, named for Johannes Conrad Schauer (1813-1948). In the early-1830s he worked as a botanist in Wrocław, Poland, where he befriended Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776-1858) who in 1838 named Schaueria for him.
There's been some confusion as to the precise name of our plant but it was resolved by Nicholas Edward Brown (1849-1934) in The Gardeners' Chronicle n.s. 19 (1883), p.14, who untangles the Justicia-Schaueria mess.
I thought I'd put in the inset to show the pistil and stamens. The long pistil guards against self-fertilisation.