Carl Linnaeus, the father of modern taxonomy, adopted amaryllis for this flower family in the late 1700s. The name amaryllis ...

spotlighting its status as a horticultural jewel due to its diverse flower colors and its distinction as the northern hemisphere's largest woody plant genus. Tracing back to Linnaeus's initial ...

The database contains images of the butterfly specimens upon which Linnaeus based his descriptions. Linnaeus described 305 taxa under the name Papilio. Of these, 241 refer to currently valid butterfly ...