Oh! Great. Till now had heard about trees getting names from scientists who I'd them, or place where they are found. Hearing first time scientist getting name from plant. Though it is common in common people like in Marathi Aboli, Jai, Jui and so on. But a scientist that to a geneus or father of Taxonomy getting a name. But why so? Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel
-----Original Message----- From: Ushadi micromini <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:21:28 To: efloraofindia<[email protected]> Subject: [efloraofindia:81145] Re: Malvaceae week: Linde (Tilia) from Knoops Park in Bremen On Sep 11, 7:26 am, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Our famous naturalist Carolus Linnaeus got his name from Linden tree (his > earler name Linne) > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Na Bha <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Linde (Tilia) Tilioideae within the family Malvaceae. > > Fotos taken on 15.6.2011 in Knoops Park in Bremen. The tree is 10 meter (or > > higher?) > > > The flowers have a very pleasent fragrance and attracts not only human > > beings but many insects. > > Wood is soft and is used in carving, used in churches especially for > > Altars, for making furniture or veneers. > > > Flowers attract honeybees and the goldcolor honey has typical flavour of > > Linde. Dried flowers are used to prepare tea which is good against cold. > > > Linden-tea with a little bit of lindenhoney, a good book to read, in a > > rocking chair near the fireplace, listening to the crackling of the fire. > > Winter can come. > > > In former days there used to be at least one Linde in every village. The > > village court was held under the lindentree, so the tree was called > > court-tree. After an epidemy or a war a peace-linde was planted. In one of > > the tree-walks I learnt that many existing lindentrees in our area were > > planted to commemorate the german-french war in 1870/71. > > In Schluttenbach in Southgermany there is one linde supposed to be more > > than 1000 years old. > > > Linde is a very popular avenue tree. and the road is typically called > > "unter den Linden" (under the lindentrees) More or less in every city or > > village there is one "unter den Linden". Lindenallee, atleast a drugstore > > "linden apotheke". > > One of the very famous "unter den Linden" is in Berlin. Festivals, > > Demonstrations, Talks by politicians, public viewing Football, everything > > takes place "unter den Linden" > > Berlin-portal says: > > "Unter den Linden is the oldest shopping street of the city and stretches > > from the Brandenburg Gate to the castle bridge. The first trees were planted > > in 1647 on order of the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm." > > > One finds many stories and poems dedicated to Linde. One very famous > > volksong is "Am Brunnen vor dem Tore, da steht ein Lindenbaum" and more or > > less everyone can sing it. > > > Regards > > Nalini
