Arent some flowers, and trees named after Indian botanists or foresters? How
come native curry leaves are named after two german botanists?
ak

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 4:14 PM, nivi tha <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> The correct name of curry leaves is *Murraya  koenigii* which refers to
> two 18 th century botanists from Sweden* Johann Andreas Murray*(1740–1791) 
> and the German
> * Johann Gerhard König *(1728–1785).
>
>
> Selvalakshmi. S
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