Sims 4 one black eye10/31/2023 Seed germinates easily in a damp mixture of fine humus-rich soil with some sand. gregorii S.Moore, the golden glory vine, with strong orange flowers but no dark 'eye', from tropical Africa and Ethiopia. grandiflora Roxb., the blue-flowered Bengal clock vine, from India, and T. Thunbergia alata is one of some 90 old world species of which there are 12 in South Africa. It refers to the winged petioles but it could also allude to the seeds that have projections looking rather like wings. (Surprisingly the plant had cream-coloured, not the common orange flowers.) The species name is from the Latin alatus, meaning winged. Seed of Thunbergia alata, named by Bojer, a German botanist, was sent from Mauritius to England where it was first described by Sims in 1825. He was so keen a collector that, when Japan was closed to all Europeans except the Dutch, he joined the East India Company as a surgeon so he could collect there. Thunberg spent three years collecting at the Cape of Good Hope, finding about 300 new plant species. Thunbergia, named in 1780 by Retzius, honours Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828), a Swedish botanist, doctor, explorer and author who was perhaps the greatest pupil of Linnaeus.
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