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Floridata: Franklinia alatamaha
... collected plants in the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida. Near the Altamaha River in Georgia, the Bartrams discovered a small tree that no European had ever seen before. The tree had flowers like ... stamens. They named the new tree the Franklin tree, after their friend, Benjamin Franklin. The Bartrams sent seeds and cuttings back to Philadelphia and to Europe for propagation. That turned out ...
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Franklinia alatamaha
... the eighteenth-century botanists John and William Bartram. The Bartrams discovered the species in 1765, when they found a small ... Bartrams in honor of their friend Benjamin Franklin. The species name "alatamaha" is an old spelling for the name of the river on which the plant was discovered ... out as the climate warmed again. The plants discovered by the Bartrams could be the last survivors of what was ...
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Rhododendron History
... Pere Jean Marie Delavay and Farges whose discovered were name R. davidii, R. delavayi, R. fargesii, and R. souliei. David also discovered R. calophytum. Delavay also discovered R. ciliicalyx, R. fictolacteum, R. ... was probably discovered by John or William Bartram and appeared in Bartram's catalogue as Azalea arborea. It may have been sent to England by the Bartrams before the introduction ...
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