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Ipomoea Pes-tigridis
''Ipomoea pes-tigridis'' is a species of ''Ipomoea'' and family Convolvulaceae. It is known as tiger's footprint (tiger's paw). The species is distributed in Asia, Africa, Australia and other islands in the Pacific. It grows in roadsides and sea coasts which sea level is between 0 and 400 m. Description file:Bud of Tiger's footprint (Ipomoea pes-tigridis).jpg, Bud of Tiger's footprint ''Ipomoea pes-tigridis'' is a hairy, vine and annual plant. It can grow up to . The heart-shape leaves are long with 9-19 lobes on edge of the leaf. The flowers are long. The trumpet-shaped flower has five points. It can be red, pink or white color and it opens after 4 pm and its flowering period is between September and November. References External links * * Ipomoea pes-tigridis L. {{Taxonbar, from=Q310302 Ipomoea, triloba Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in 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 continued to collect an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
