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Wongi State Forest
''Manilkara kauki'' is a plant in the subfamily Sapotoideae, and the tribe Sapoteae of the family Sapotaceae; and is the type species for the genus ''Manilkara''. It occurs in tropical Asia from Indo-China ( Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam) to Malesia ( Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea); and also in northern Queensland in Australia. In Java, the plant is called ''sawo kacik'', and is associated with the royal Javanese ritual. In India, the fruit is called ''adão (Adam’s fruit)'' in Konkani. Throughout the world it is known generally by the name ''caqui'', but in Australia it is called ''wongi''. Description The leaves are rigid, blunt-tipped, dark-green on the upper leaf face, and pale and silky below. The edible, orange-red fruit is 3–4 cm long. Uses For reforestation purposes, ''M. kauki'' is a useful graft stock for ''M. zapota'', and parts of the plant are used in herbal medicine Herbal medicine (also herbalism) is the study of ... [...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] |
