Melaleuca Glaberrima
''Melaleuca glaberrima'' is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a dense, spreading shrub with needle shaped, but not sharp leaves and profuse pink or mauve flowers. Description ''Melaleuca glaberrima'' is a shrub to growing to about high with foliage that is glabrous except when very young. The leaves are arranged alternately on the stem, are circular or slightly flattened in cross-section, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in almost spherical or slightly elongated heads up to long and wide. The heads appear on old wood and contain 10 to 40 pinky-mauve flowers which fade to white. The petals are long and fall off soon after the flower opens. The stamens are arranged in five bundles around the flower, each bundle containing 8 to 20 stamens. Flowering occurs from July but mostly from November to December, and the fruit that follow are cup-shaped woody capsules about long and scattered along the ste ...
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Otto Kuntze
Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze (23 June 1843 – 27 January 1907) was a German botanist. Biography Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig. An apothecary in his early career, he published an essay entitled ''Pocket Fauna of Leipzig''. Between 1863 and 1866 he worked as tradesman in Berlin and traveled through central Europe and Italy. From 1868 to 1873 he had his own factory for essential oils and attained a comfortable standard of living. Between 1874 and 1876, he traveled around the world: the Caribbean, United States, Japan, China, South East Asia, Arabian peninsula and Egypt. The journal of these travels was published as "Around the World" (1881). From 1876 to 1878 he studied Natural Science in Berlin and Leipzig and gained his doctorate in Freiburg with a monography of the genus '' Cinchona''. He edited the botanical collection from his world voyage encompassing 7,700 specimens in Berlin and Kew Gardens. The publication came as a shock to botany, since Kuntze had entirely revised taxonom ...
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