Covering the events of March 18, 2006, on which 272 members joined.
Gardening Quote of the Day
"I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines."
Named for Friedrich Carl (or Karl) Johann Vaupel, early 20th century German scientist and plant collector
vaupeliana
voh-pel-ee-AH-na
Named for Friedrich Carl (or Karl) Johann Vaupel, early 20th century German scientist and plant collector
vaupelianum
voh-pel-ee-AH-num
Named for Friedrich Carl (or Karl) Johann Vaupel, early 20th century German scientist and plant collector
vaupelianus
voh-pel-ee-AH-nus
Named for Friedrich Carl (or Karl) Johann Vaupel, early 20th century German scientist and plant collector
necopina
nek-oh-PIN-a
Unexpected or unaware
necopinum
nek-oh-PIN-um
Unexpected or unaware
necopinus
nek-oh-PIN-us
Unexpected or unaware
Hildebrandtia
hil-de-BRAND-tee-a
Named for Johann Maria Hildebrandt, 19th century German plant collector
hildebrandtiana
hil-de-brand-tee-AH-na
Named for Johann Maria Hildebrandt, 19th century German plant collector
macranthos
mak-RANTH-os
Large flowered
Decalobanthus
dek-a-lohb-AN-thus
Ten-lobed flower
taltalense
tal-tal-EN-see
Of or from Taltal, Chile
taltalensis
tal-tal-EN-sis
Of or from Taltal, Chile
Sarcocaulon
sar-koh-KAW-lon
From the Greek sarkos (flesh) and caule (stem)
pylzowii
pil-ZOV-ee-eye
Named for Mikhail Alexandrovich Pyltsov, 19th century Russian army officer who accompanied Przewalski in China
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