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Bauhinia Blakeana

Hong-Kong Flag
The flower on the flag is the Hong Kong Orchid Tree (Bauhinia Blakeana) - named after the British Governor of Hong Kong from 1898 to 1903, Sir Henry Blake, a keen botanist who discovered it near Pokfulam, Hong Kong Island, in 1880.

The actual flowers are bright pinkish purple, not white as on the flag.

If I remember my botany it is normally sterile and can only be propagated by cuttings (there is one tree that is said to produce seeds). Actually it is neither a tree nor an orchid, it's a member of the class leguminosae (the pea family). The genus is named in honor of the Swiss botanists of the 16th and 17th centuries, the Bauhin brothers.

Gaspard Bauhin ( January 17, 1560 – December 5, 1624) and Jean Bauhin ( 1541- 1613) were Swiss- French botanists.
Jean and Gaspard were the sons of Jean Bauhin (1511-1582), a French physician who had to leave his native country on becoming a convert to Protestantism. Gaspard was born at Basel and studied medicine at Paduatempera, Two Christians before the Judges hangs in the city's cathedral. The city of Padua (Lat. Patavium It. Padova is the economic and communications hub of the Veneto region in northern Italy. The capital of Padova province, it stands on the Bacchiglio, MontpellierMontpellier ( Occitan Montpelhier is a city in the south of France. It is the prefecture (administrative capital) of the Herault departement''. Its population in 1999 was 225,392, while the surrounding metropolitan area (in French: aire urbaine had a popu, and in GermanyThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east. Returning to Basel in 1580, he was admitted to the degree of doctor, and gave private lectures in botanyBotany is the scientific study of plants. As a branch of biology, it is also sometimes referred to as plant science(s or plant biology . Botany covers a wide range of scientific disciplines that study the growth, reproduction, metabolism, development, dis and anatomy. In 1582 he was appointed to the Greek professorship in that university, and in 1588 to the chair of anatomy and botany.
by doopylily | 2006-07-19 15:04


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