#panicle

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2025-08-04

Metelkin. My friend. Nice to meet

So, look what a green friend has grown here. This is Metelkin. Because of it looks like panicle. Green and fluffy. It has grown up. To my surprise. And, now, he is so beautiful and green here. It is so good when there are lots of green and good and kind friends.

2022-12-03

#December 2, 1879
#OTD Ferdinand Jakob Lindheimer, Father of #Texas #Botany, died.

In 1842, #Lindheimer wrote to #Botanist George #Engelmann:

"I am sending 180 #Plants collected in the #Spring of 1840...
Send me the #Names soon so that I don't have to keep creating #Nicknames, especially for the #Grasses; for instance, Narrow #Ear, #Panicle Ear, Long Ear, Twin Ear..."

Lindheimer discovered several hundred new #Plant #Species in Texas.
He is remembered in many plant #Names.

#Garden #History

The Oenothera lindheimeri is a species of
Oenothera.  It is commonly known as Lindheimer's beeblossom, white gaura, pink gaura, Lindheimer's clockweed, and Indian feather.

Native to southern Louisiana and Texas.
The specific
epithet is after Ferdinand Jacob Lindheimer, the German-born botanist who
collected extensively in Texas for Harvard University professor Asa Gray.Image of Ferdinand Jakob Lindheimer, Father of #Texas #Botany. He has a weathered face and a big scraggly beard.

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