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Thapsia Maxima
''Thapsia villosa'', commonly known as the villous deadly carrot, is a species of poisonous plant, poisonous herbaceous plants in the genus ''Thapsia (plant), Thapsia''. It grows to about in height. It has pinnate hairy leaves with sheath-like petiole (botany), petioles. The flowers are yellow in color and borne on compound umbels. They develop into fruits with four wings characteristic of the genus. It is native to southwestern Europe and northwestern Africa surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. The plant was used extensively for traditional medicine since around the 3rd century BC. Taxonomy ''Thapsia villosa'' was first described by Carl Linnaeus in ''Species Plantarum'' (1753). It is classified under the genus ''Thapsia (plant), Thapsia'', subfamily Apioideae, of the carrot and parsley family (biology), family Apiaceae. Two Variety (botany), varieties are recognized: ''T. villosa'' var. ''villosa'' and ''T. villosa'' var. ''dissecta''. The genus, generic name ''Thapsia'' is der ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was the son of a curate and was born in Råshult, in the countryside of Småland, southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
