Wisteria sinensis
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Known as, in:Dutch: -
French: Glycine (Fem.) German: Blauregen (Masc.) Greek: πασχαλιά (Fem.) Icelandic: - Irish: - Vistéiria (Fem.) Italian: Glicine (masc.) Old English/Anglo Saxon: - Scotts Gaelic: - Spanish: Glicina (Fem.) Welsh: - |
In the European Folk or White Cultures including Anglo and or Celt, it is also known/referred to as;
Blauregen, Chinese Kidney Bean, Chinese Wisteria, Fabables, Glicina, Glicine, Glitziniya, Primavera, Sweet,
Visteriya Kitaiskaya, Vilmorin, Wisteria or Wistaria.
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History and Etymology
Wisteria (n.)
The botanist Thomas Nuttall said he named the genus Wisteria in memory of the American physician and anatomist Caspar Wistar (1761–1818). Questioned about the spelling later, Nuttall said it was for "euphony", but his biographer speculated that it may have something to do with Nuttall's friend Charles Jones Wister Sr., of Grumblethorpe, the grandson of the merchant John Wister. Abstract noun ending -ia. The -e- apparently is a misprint. The Wistar Institute was founded in 1892 by his great-nephew and named for him. Some Philadelphia sources state that the plant is named after Wister. As the spelling is apparently deliberate, there is no justification for changing the genus name under the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. However, some spell the plant's common name "wistaria". Wisteria sinensis, commonly known as the Chinese wisteria, is a species of flowering plant in the pea family, native to China, in the provinces of Guangxi, Guizhou, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Shaanxi, and Yunnan. Growing 20–30 m (66–98 ft) tall, it is a deciduous vine. It is widely cultivated in temperate regions for its twisting stems and masses of scented flowers in hanging racemes, in spring. Wisteria sinensis was unknown in the west before 1816, when several agents of the East India Company working in China sent cuttings back to England. Over the next several decades the plant became, and remains, one of the quintessential ornamental vines in temperate gardens worldwide. A 200-year-old specimen, growing at Griffin's Brewery in Chiswick, London, is often cited as the UK's oldest living wisteria plant. It has become an invasive species in some areas of the eastern United States where the climate closely matches that of China. Caspar Wistar
(September 13, 1761 – January 22, 1818) Was an American physician and anatomist. He is sometimes referred to as Caspar Wistar the Younger, to distinguish him from his grandfather of the same name. He was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Richard Wistar (1727–1781) and Sarah Wyatt (1733–1771).[1] He was the grandson of Caspar Wistar (1696–1752), a German immigrant, Quaker and glassmaker. His interest in medicine began while he was aiding in the care of the wounded after the battle of Germantown, and he made his first studies under the direction of Dr. John Redman. He studied medicine, first at the University of Pennsylvania (receiving his Bachelor of Medicine degree in 1782), and then at the University of Edinburgh (receiving his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1786). While in Scotland he was, for two successive years, president of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, and also president of a society for the further investigation of natural history. |
Thomas Nuttall
(5 January 1786 – 10 September 1859) Was an English botanist and zoologist who lived and worked in America from 1808 until 1841. Nuttall was born in the village of Long Preston, near Settle in the West Riding of Yorkshire and spent some years as an apprentice printer in England. Soon after going to the United States he met Professor Benjamin Smith Barton in Philadelphia. Barton encouraged his strong interest in natural history. John Sims
(13 October 1749 – 26 February 1831) An English physician and botanist, born in Canterbury, Kent and was subsequently educated at the Quaker school in Burford, Oxfordshire. He then went on to study medicine at Edinburgh University. Later in life he moved to London(1766) where he worked as a physician, notably he was involved with the birth of Princess Charlotte in which both mother and baby died. He was the first editor of Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Augustin Pyramus de Candolle
(4 February 1778 – 9 September 1841) A Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched deCandolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium. Within a couple of years de Candolle had established a new genus,and he went on to document hundreds of plant families and create anew natural plant classification system. Although de Candolle's mainfocus was botany, he also contributed to related fields such as phytogeography, agronomy, paleontology, medical botany, and economic botany. De Candolle's descendants continued his work on plant classification; son Alphonse and grandson Casimir de Candolle contributed to the Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, a catalog of plants begun by Augustin Pyramus deCandolle. |
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