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Giant water lily looking like spaceship landing platforms in the greenhouse of the Hortus Botanicus in Leiden, The Netherlands.
Lens: Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 45mm F/1.8.
From The Botanical Magazine of 1876 we learn that some roots of this striking Globba, Jungle Ginger, were sent to the famous botanical gardens at Kew in 1864. Hooker calls it Yellow Dancing Ginger - without the 'Girl', which has since been added to the English. The Latin specific is for Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804-1865), a highly versatile English public servant and naturalist originally from Prussia who served as Consul in Siam (now Thailand) from 1876-1864. It was he who sent those bulbs to Kew. The generic 'Globba' is New Latin for the Ambonese-Malay name for this plant: Galoba.
I put up another Dancing Globba (maratina) in this stream in 2012: www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/6776137215/in/photolis.... But the present one is certainly more striking!
TU Delft Hortus Botanicus
Aan het begin van de 20e eeuw wordt in Delft naast de toenmalige Technische Hogeschool, nu de Technische Universiteit Delft, een plantentuin aangelegd in een drassig stuk land tegen de Delftse binnenstad. Al snel wordt de tuin en het kassencomplex beplant met gewassen die van essentieel belang zijn voor de mens en duidelijke toepassingen hebben, zoals voedsel, medicijnen, kleding, onderdak en grondstoffen. Tropische gebruiksgewassen zoals bananen, gembers en thee, maar ook minder tropische families als de toverhazelaars zijn opgenomen in de plantencollecties, die verspreid door de tuin worden getoond, onderzocht en gebruikt.
De TU Delft Hortus Botanicus is een publieksgerichte tuin waar het heerlijk toeven is en altijd iets te ontdekken valt of te doen is. Maar het is ook een onderzoekstuin waar al meer dan 100 jaar botanisch onderzoek aan planten wordt gedaan. Het heeft veel wilde planten tot industriële toepassingen gebracht en is inspiratie geweest voor baanbrekende innovaties.
TU Delft Hortus Botanicus
At the beginning of the 20th century, a botanical garden was created in Delft, next to what was then the Delft University of Technology (now Delft University of Technology), on a marshy plot of land bordering the city center. The garden and greenhouse complex were soon planted with plants essential to humankind and with clear applications, such as food, medicine, clothing, shelter, and raw materials. Tropical crops such as bananas, ginger, and tea, as well as less tropical families like witch hazel, are included in the plant collections, which are displayed, researched, and used throughout the garden.
The TU Delft Hortus Botanicus is a public garden where it is wonderful to relax and enjoy, and where there is always something to discover and do. But it is also a research garden where botanical research on plants has been conducted for over 100 years. It has brought many wild plants to industrial use and has inspired groundbreaking innovations.
Down in Amsterdam a bit early for dinner with a Friend, I went to the always marvelous Botanical Garden, the Hortus Botanicus. The wind was chilly and clouds were already drifting in, but all was pleasant enough.
That is what this Young Couple of Marsh Lovers (Helophilus pendulus), European Hoverflies, experienced, I would wager. Here they're intimate on the Green of Bluebell, Hyacinthoides non-scripta.