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Fringed Tulips, sometimes called Crispa Tulips, are much-loved cultivars. This particular white 'Honeymoon', the Hortus tells us, was developed around 2000. They're quite appropriate now for the very cold Spring we're having.
Hierba en avenida del Mediterráneo.
Suena "In Paradisum" de la Misa de Requiem op. 48, de Gabriel Fauré, con la Orquesta y Coro de RTVE:
Three years ago I posted a photo of this flower still in bud (www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/45799333455/in/photoli...). The darkness of January is today upon us as it was then but this photo shows the flowers more fully. Something of a gift on this first day of the opening of the Hortus after our strict lockdown.
Since 2019 I've learned a bit more about the history of our plant and its first describers. On the basis of their scientific description in 1914, I gathered it had been collected in July 1910 by Perrier de la Bâthie himself; but possibly those words are by Raymond-Hamet, Perrier's co-author. Another source says it had been sent to Perrier by the collector-duo Madame and Monsieur Daigremont; and thus it was named for them.
Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrrier de la Bâthie (1873-1958) was indeed an intrepid plant collector himself. He'd made his way to Madagascar in the wake of France's annexation of that island in 1896 (after the long Franco-Hova colonial wars since 1883). Initially he was a geologist ( in search of gold). Later he became an adviser to the colonial authorities about anything to do with nature. He is today known as a naturalist and also a conservationist, But much as he loved nature, he attempted to set it to colonial standards. He went so far as to introduce an insect, a cochinella, Dactylopius sp., to southern Madagascar in 1923 to eradicate Opuntia raketa (Prickly Pear) that made colonial farming difficult. The native population, though, needed that plant as fodder for their cattle. The plant gone, a terrible famine ensued killing half of the indigenous people of the area.
It's a chilling history described in detail by Karen Middleton, 'Who killed Malagasy Cactus?', Ethnohistory 25 (1999), 215-248.
Hortus Arcadië is a botanical garden in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
It is part of Park Brakkenstein and laid out between 1969 and 1971.
Daniel Carlsson Solander (1733-1782), a student of great Carolus Linnaeus, accompanied James Cook on the Endeavour's first voyage around the world (1768-1771). In the South Seas he saw this Rhopalostylis sapida, which Johann Georg Adam Forster (1754-1794) - who went on Cook's second voyage - called an Areca (1786). It's now in blossom in the Hortus Botanicus here in Amsterdam.
I examined it closely and found the male flowers sticky with nectar. It's exuded by the pistillodes - the infertile pistils that the male flowers bear. My fingers were deliciously sticky from having brushed those flowers as Olymp was doing his thing.
Curiously none of the scientific descriptions that I read mention that stickiness. In the inset you can see a few of those pistillodes with drops of nectar.
Europe, Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Lieden, Rapenburg, Hortus Botanicus. Hothouse, Tropical plants
'De Hortus' is the oldest botanical garden of the Neherlands-- foudend in 1590 by Carolus Clusius. Website: here.
It's been a while since i posted Hortus pics, the last time was some 13 years ago: here, here and here.
Hortus botanical gardens , Martin’s photographs , Amsterdam , North Holland , the Netherlands , June 5. 2023
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This agave plant resides at De Hortus in Amsterdam. Said to be forty years old, the bloom is also the death of the plant. www.dehortus.nl/?lang=en
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This pretty Palm with fanlike (=Thrinax/flabellate) fronds is not marked in the Three-Climate House of the Hortus. But on the fine website it's called a Coccothrinax sp. Though no expert in Palms, I'm not entirely convinced. I think it's more specifically rather a Thrinax radiata which has sometimes in a dimmer past been called a Thrinax aurantia; 'aurantia' for orange-colored.