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Hakea Dactyloides
''Hakea dactyloides'', commonly known as the finger hakea, is a widely distributed species mainly found in southeastern New South Wales, Australia. An attractive shrub or small tree for the home garden bearing sprays of cream-white flowers. Description ''Hakea dactyloides'' is a non-lignotuberous upright single-stemmed bushy shrub or small tree tall. Small branches are smooth and generally pale, covered with short matted fine hairs at flowering. Leaves are long and narrow, widest in the middle, rarely narrowly egg-shaped or sickle shaped long and wide. The mid-green leaves taper to a point with three prominent longitudinal veins above and below. The solitary inflorescence has 20-38 white flowers on a short stalk with white flat silky hairs and rarely rust coloured. The sepals and petals are cream-white, the style long. Fruit are warty and egg-shaped with a slight curve long and wide ending with a sharp short point. Small white flowers often with a pink tinge appear alo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio José Cavanilles
Antonio José Cavanilles (16 January 1745 – 5 May 1804) was a leading Spanish taxonomic botanist of the 18th century. He named many plants, particularly from Oceania. He named at least 100 genera, about 54 of which were still used in 2004, including ''Dahlia'', '' Calycera'', ''Cobaea'', '' Galphimia'', and ''Oleandra''. Biography Cavanilles was born in Valencia. He lived in Paris from 1777 to 1781, where he followed careers as a clergyman and a botanist, thanks to André Thouin and Antoine Laurent de Jussieu. He was one of the first Spanish scientists to use the classification method invented by Carl Linnaeus. From Paris he moved to Madrid, where he was director of the Royal Botanical Garden and Professor of botany from 1801 to 1804. In 1804, Cavanilles was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. He died in Madrid in 1804. Selected publications * ''Icones et descriptiones plantarum, quae aut sponte in Hispania crescunt, aut in hortis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
