Stephen Endlicher

Stephen Endlicher

Genera Plantarum On this day in 1804 at the botanist Stephen Endlicher was born in Pressburg, Hungry.   Endlicher devised a major system of plant classification. He explained it in his groundbreaking book Genera Plantarum.   Endlicher donated his herbarium of 30,000 specimens to the Vienna Museum of Natural History and in 1840 he was appointed…

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Did you know that lilies enjoy being planted in part shade? They don’t really like to be baked in full sun. If you plant them in a little bit of shade, it will allow your plant to experience less stress, and thus, it will elongate its stem. Lilies that are grown in full sun tend…

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