Dahlia detail September 13 2011
Had stopped to admire a neighborhood raspberry bush and the dahlia's were in bloom below. Bicolor Red and Yellow Dahlia.
The dahlia is named afte...
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Had stopped to admire a neighborhood raspberry bush and the dahlia's were in bloom below. Bicolor Red and Yellow Dahlia.
The dahlia is named after Swedish 18th-century botanist Anders Dahl. Francisco Hernández visited Mexico in 1615 and noticed two spectacular varieties of dahlias, which he mentioned in his account of medicinal plants of New Spain, not published until 1651.[6] The French botanist Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville, sent to Mexico to steal the cochineal insect valued for its scarlet dye, noted the strangely beautiful flowers he had seen in his official report, published in 1787.[7] Seeds sent from the botanical garden of Mexico City[8] to Madrid flowered for the first time in the botanical garden in October 1789, and were named Dahlia coccinea by Antonio José Cavanilles, the head of the Madrid Botanical Garden, in his Icones plantarum, 1791. en.wikipedia.org-wiki-Dahlia
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The dahlia is named after Swedish 18th-century botanist Anders Dahl. Francisco Hernández visited Mexico in 1615 and noticed two spectacular varieties of dahlias, which he mentioned in his account of medicinal plants of New Spain, not published until 1651.[6] The French botanist Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville, sent to Mexico to steal the cochineal insect valued for its scarlet dye, noted the strangely beautiful flowers he had seen in his official report, published in 1787.[7] Seeds sent from the botanical garden of Mexico City[8] to Madrid flowered for the first time in the botanical garden in October 1789, and were named Dahlia coccinea by Antonio José Cavanilles, the head of the Madrid Botanical Garden, in his Icones plantarum, 1791. en.wikipedia.org-wiki-Dahlia
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