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Born @ Spring

nobody@flickr.com (GSAndré) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:24:11 -0700

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Between 1634 and 1637, the early enthusiasm for the new flowers triggered a speculative frenzy now known as the tulip mania. Tulips would become so expensive that they were treated as a form of currency. Around this time, the ceramic tulipiere was devised for the display of cut flowers stem by stem (bouquets displayed in vases were rare until the 19th century, although such vases and bouquets, usually including tulips, often appeared in Dutch still-life painting). To this day, tulips are associated with the Netherlands, and the cultivated forms of the tulip are often called "Dutch tulips." In addition to the tulip industry and tulip festivals, the Netherlands has the world's largest permanent display of tulips at Keukenhof, although the display is only open to the public seasonally.

White Amaryllis

nobody@flickr.com (GSAndré) — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:21:36 -0800

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The taxonomy of the genus is In 1753 Carl Linnaeus created the name Amaryllis belladonna, the type species of the genus Amaryllis. At the time both South African and South American plants were placed in the same genus; subsequently they were separated into two different genera. The key question is whether Linnaeus's type was a South African plant or a South American plant. If the latter, the correct name for the genus Hippeastrum would be Amaryllis. Alan W. Meerow et al. have briefly summarized the debate, which took place from 1938 onwards and involved botanists on both sides of the Atlantic. The outcome was a decision by the 14th International Botanical Congress in 1987 that Amaryllis L. should be a conserved name (i.e. correct regardless of priority) and ultimately based on a specimen of the South African Amaryllis belladonna from the Clifford Herbarium at the British Museum. Thus Amaryllis L. is not the correct name for the South American genus.

The second issue is whether the name should be Leopoldia. In 1821, William Herbert published the genus name Hippeastrum. Earlier, in 1819, he had proposed Leopoldia as a provisional name (nomen provisorium) for the same taxon. Although Leopoldia was subsequently validated (i.e. became the correct name), this was overlooked, and Hippeastrum rather than Leopoldia was used for the genus of New World amaryllids. Following Filippo Parlatore in 1845, the name Leopoldia was used for a genus of grape hyacinth species, allied to Muscari. In order to preserve the widespread usage of both Hippeastrum and Leopoldia, Fabio Garbari and Werner Greuter proposed in 1970 that Herbert's Hippeastrum and Parlatore's Leopoldia should be conserved and Herbert's Leopoldia rejected. This was accepted and Hippeastrum Herb. is now a conserved name (nomen conservandum), i.e. the correct name regardless of the fact that it does not have priority over Leopoldia.

"Hippeastrum" is Greek for "knight's star". While no one is entirely sure why Herbert picked this name, it appears that he was referring to the medieval weapon called a "morning star".

BMW R1200GS

nobody@flickr.com (GSAndré) — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 01:34:50 -0700

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BMW R1200GS Logo@fueltank

nobody@flickr.com (GSAndré) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 04:47:03 -0700

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BMW R1200GS Rearwheel @spring

nobody@flickr.com (GSAndré) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 04:47:09 -0700

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BMW R1200GS in Red

nobody@flickr.com (GSAndré) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 04:47:10 -0700

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BMW R1200GS Cylinder

nobody@flickr.com (GSAndré) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 04:47:05 -0700

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BMW R1200GS Foglights Touratech

nobody@flickr.com (GSAndré) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 04:47:07 -0700

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BMW R 1200GS in the spring

nobody@flickr.com (GSAndré) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 04:47:06 -0700

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BMW R1200GS Frontbrake

nobody@flickr.com (GSAndré) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 04:47:05 -0700

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BMW R1200GS Headlights

nobody@flickr.com (GSAndré) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 04:47:08 -0700

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BMW R1200GS with Topcase

nobody@flickr.com (GSAndré) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 04:47:02 -0700

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BMW R1200GS Rear Wheel

nobody@flickr.com (GSAndré) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 04:47:04 -0700

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BMW R1200GS @spring

nobody@flickr.com (GSAndré) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 04:47:08 -0700

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Cockpit from the BMW R1200GS

nobody@flickr.com (GSAndré) — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:37:20 -0800

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BMW R1200GS Wallpaper

nobody@flickr.com (GSAndré) — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:37:22 -0800

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View from ...........

nobody@flickr.com (GSAndré) — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:37:21 -0800

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Wallpaper BMW R1200GS

nobody@flickr.com (GSAndré) — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:37:21 -0800

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BMW R1200GS in the polder

nobody@flickr.com (GSAndré) — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:37:19 -0800

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Autumn colors

nobody@flickr.com (GSAndré) — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 22:43:14 -0800

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