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Caryocar Nuciferum
''Caryocar nuciferum'', the butter-nut of Guiana, is a fruit tree native to Central and South America. Description ''Caryocar nuciferum'' grows up to in humid forests. Flowers are hermaphroditic and in small clusters. The large coconut-sized fruit, weighs about , is round or pear-shaped some in diameter, and greyish-brown in colour. The outer skin is leathery, about thick, and covered in rust-coloured lenticels. The ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' Eleventh Edition (1911) calls the fruit "perhaps the finest of all hosecalled nuts. The kernel is large, soft, and even sweeter than the almond, which it somewhat resembles in taste." Pulp of the mesocarp is oily and sticky, holding 1–4 hard, woody, warty stones, with tasty, reniform endocarp. Taxonomy ''Caryocar nuciferum'' is illustrated and discussed in detail in ''Curtis's Botanical Magazine'' volume 54 (1827), and figured oplates 2727 and 2728using material sent from the island of Saint Vincent by Lansdown Guilding. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was the son of a curate and was born in Råshult, in the countryside of Småland, southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
