Mauve. Gloxinia perennis, Canterbury Bells, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Charles Louis l'Héritier de Brutelle (1746-1800), as he was returning home from the Institute of Sciences in Paris on August 16, 1800, was knifed to death by an unknown assailant. Fifteen years earlier he'd already named our pretty plant for the renowned German physician and botanist Benjamin Peter Gloxin (1765-1795). Today Gloxinia perennis lights up the shadows of the Tropical Greenhouse of our Hortus.
Mauve. Gloxinia perennis, Canterbury Bells, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Charles Louis l'Héritier de Brutelle (1746-1800), as he was returning home from the Institute of Sciences in Paris on August 16, 1800, was knifed to death by an unknown assailant. Fifteen years earlier he'd already named our pretty plant for the renowned German physician and botanist Benjamin Peter Gloxin (1765-1795). Today Gloxinia perennis lights up the shadows of the Tropical Greenhouse of our Hortus.