The history of the gardenia in this country is intertwined with the botanical investigations of Alexander Garden.

Additions to the Flora of Ceylon’ is a landmark in Sri Lanka’s botanical history which reveals nearly 200 plant species, ...

It was during this period that the Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus began to give genus and species names, in Latin, to plants and animals, a system that would become known as binomial nomenclature.

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