Mudhand

Arundo donax

Arundo donax, not a bamboo but still an impressive grass growing up to 6 meters in height (or sometimes even higher; it is in the same tribe as Phragmites). It is widely naturalized/wwedy in warmer parts of the world, and is common in the Mediterranean and areas with similar climate. It has been [...]

Cupressus torulosa

Today we moved more than 300 boxes of gymnosperms up to the attic, giving us more space for the scanning group down in the Regnellian herberium! We don’t have many gymnosperms scanned (yet), but I found this Cupressus torulosa from the Indian part of Himalaya (it is distributed on limestone also [...]

Moraea vegeta

It was in collaboration with the German (ex-)gardener Carl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher (1799-1858) that Ecklon did most of his collections. Even if we today attribute many of their collections to both of them, they often traveled without each others company. On this specimen we can see two labels… See More, the left in [...]

Lachnaea sociorum

The year 1795 in Åbenrå in what then was Denmark (but today is Schleswig-Holstein), Christian Frederick Ecklon was born. He studied to apothecary, but changed career to botanist and collector, and became one of the most prolific collectors of South African flora, from 1829 together with C.L.P. Zeyher. Here at S we have [...]

Carpinus betulus

This is not a type, but an early collection of avenbok (Carpinus betulus) from Skåne, the southernmost province in Sweden. It is annotaded in the hand of Daniel Solander (1733-1782), both on the front (recto) and the back (verso); of course also professor Johan Emanuel Wikström (1789-1856) has annotated the sheet…

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