Yellow! Splitleaf Slipperwort, Calceolaria tripartita, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Olymp had to maneuver a bit to give you an idea of our plant's name: Slipperwort or Calceolaria. If you look carefully you can see the slipper's opening on the right. It's a nice, very yellow flower and sparkles in the Autumn sunlight.
Calceolaria is not from these parts but it hails from South America. From 1777-1788 a scientific fact-finding mission - the Expedición Bótanica al Virreinato de Perú- was funded by enlightend king Charles III of Spain (1716-1788). It was headed by Hipólito Ruiz López (1754-1816) and José Antonio Pavón y Jiménez (1754-1840) assisted by their French colleague, Joseph Dombey (1742-1794). If you look at those dates: be astonished how young Ruiz and Pavón were when they embarked on a voyage to the other ends of the world from European Spain!
Many specimens of plants were collected. Among them this Slipperwort which was found in Panao, Huánuco in central Peru; in their description (1798) our botanists say 'in the woods of Panatahuas'.
Yellow! Splitleaf Slipperwort, Calceolaria tripartita, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Olymp had to maneuver a bit to give you an idea of our plant's name: Slipperwort or Calceolaria. If you look carefully you can see the slipper's opening on the right. It's a nice, very yellow flower and sparkles in the Autumn sunlight.
Calceolaria is not from these parts but it hails from South America. From 1777-1788 a scientific fact-finding mission - the Expedición Bótanica al Virreinato de Perú- was funded by enlightend king Charles III of Spain (1716-1788). It was headed by Hipólito Ruiz López (1754-1816) and José Antonio Pavón y Jiménez (1754-1840) assisted by their French colleague, Joseph Dombey (1742-1794). If you look at those dates: be astonished how young Ruiz and Pavón were when they embarked on a voyage to the other ends of the world from European Spain!
Many specimens of plants were collected. Among them this Slipperwort which was found in Panao, Huánuco in central Peru; in their description (1798) our botanists say 'in the woods of Panatahuas'.