It was originally called Santa Ana, but on May 10, 1858, was renamed in honor of the French naturalist Aimé Bonpland whose body rests in a mausoleum in the Cemetery of the Holy Cross of Paso de los Libres.
In its generic name Humboldt and Bonpland honoured Swiss botanist Jacques Denis Choisy (1799-1859).
Sims and Edwards state that it was discovered by the celebrated travellers Humboldt and Bonpland in April 1801, near the small village of Turbaco, near Cartagena, Colombia.
: Cotoneaster denticulata
Illustration by Pierre Jean François Turpin
from Kunth, Bonpland, and Humboldt'sregnum = Plantae
The novel re-imagines the lives of German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and German geographer Alexander von Humboldt – who was accompanied on his journeys by Aimé Bonpland – and their many groundbreaking ways of taking the world's measure, as well as Humboldt's and Bonpland's travels in America and their meeting in 1828.