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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:
Hortus Arcadië is a botanical garden in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
It is part of Park Brakkenstein and laid out between 1969 and 1971.
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.
The Hortus has a brand-new swampy patch that's beholden to bog plants among which carnivorous ones and also a nice variety of tiny heathers. Here's flowering Spike Heath. Note the tiny pistils and also the pretty prink-red.
I understand botanists don't agree on the precise name of this plant; sometimes 'Bruckenthalia' is replaced by 'Erica'. The name is for Samuel von Brukenthal (1721-1803), governor of Transylvania.
La falaise de l'Hortus qui fait face à l'arrière du Pic Saint-Loup. The Hortus cliff facing the rear of Pic Saint Loup
Of the many common names for Achillea ptarmica Fair-maid-of-France struck my fancy, just having returned from Orléans. 'Ptarmica' is derived from the ancient Greek word for sneezing. But my really tiny Braconid - I think - wasp hadn't a sniffing problem at all even close to Maid's pollen. Such a wee creature...
If you look closely at its tongue you'll be able to see flecks of pollen that our Hoverfly is gathering from the small flowers of Great Burnet.
In Holland Marmalade Hoverfly goes also by the name Mustache Hoverfy for obvious reasons. It's ubiquitous 'round the globe and every time I see it, it cheers me up. So I don't even need an extract of this pharmaceutical plant for that purpose...
I for one generally associate Peony flowers with red or pink, perhaps with white. But here's a wonderful one that's yellow. It hails from the Caucasus Mountains so it's used to chilly, windy and wet spring weather. Here in the Hortus it grows on quite rich earth; but 'back home' it sends its long and carrot-like roots down into rocky, mountainous slopes. Relatively recently it has come to be known in English as 'Molly-the-Witch' on account of the specific which is considered hard to pronounce.
It was assigned that specific by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Lomakin (1863-1930) a younger Russian colleague of Ludwik Franciscek MÅ‚okosiewicz (1831-1909). MÅ‚okosiewicz was one of those indefatigable and adventurous naturalists in the service of the Russian empire. As a young man he was drafted into the Imperial Army and opted to serve in the Caucasian Division. His botanical proclivities were rewarded and he was able to travel through many regions in the Caucasus and also in Persia. Ah! those nineteenth-century Russian expeditious naturalists! Someone should write a book about them (I'm unaware if there is one).
Charles Plumier (1646-1704) - great French plant collector and naturalist especially in the tropical Americas - was the first to use surnames for the scientific description of plants. He's the first, too, to have described what we today call Tradescantia zanonia. That name has retained as its specific Plumier's genus; he called this plant Zanonia graminea perfoliata. Zanonia is for Giacoma Zanoni (1615-1682), well-known Italian botanist. Carolus Linnaeus renamed it, again using a surname, Commelina zanonia, re-using the Zanoni specific. The Commelina is for uncle and nephew Jan (1629-1692) and Caspar (1647-1734) Commelijn, well-known and influential Dutch botanists. Among their many professions they also directed the Amsterdam Hortus. Another name change occurred in 1797. Olof Peter Swartz (1760-1818) decided on the name Tradescantia, again retaining zanonia. The Tradescantia is for father and son - both called John - Tradescant (1570-1638, 1608-1662) - influential English botanists. Linnaeus had already established the name Tradescantia but Swartz applied it to this plant.
No doubt unaware of this nomenclatural issues, Mexican Flag flourishes in the Hortus.
Painswick Rococo Garden, Gloucestershire
Follow my year-long artist residency on Twitter @hortus_lucis
Extending my practice as a mobile photographer into alternative processes: most importantly, Anthotypes (prints made from vegetable dyes)
A part of the Amsterdam Light Festival leads to the Amsterdam Hortus Botanicus...for some reason I found the illuminated trees more interesting than the art objects...