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I know very little about botany or horticulture, and am no kind of gardener, but I was very pleased to learn that a rather lovely plant which is growing outside our house goes by the name of osteospermum. It is also sometimes called an African daisy.
The scientific name was given to it by the famous Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus, the “father of modern taxonomy”. The etymology of the plant’s name is interesting, and places it in the category of coinages which have, over the years, been found
The scientific name was given to it by the famous Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus, the “father of modern taxonomy”. The etymology of the plant’s name is interesting, and places it in the category of coinages which have, over the years, been found
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