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5 unusual facts about Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn


Cyathea junghuhniana

The specific epithet junghuhniana commemorates German botanist Friedrich Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809-1864), who collected numerous plants on Java and Sumatra.

Johannes Elias Teijsmann

For his bitter controversy with J.E. de Vrij and Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn about the relative merits of the various species of Cinchona (C. calisaya versus C. pahudiana) see the successive issues (from 1862) of Natuurkundig tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië.

Kawah Putih

The lake is said to have been first documented in the western world in 1837 by Dr Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, a German botanist who carried out a considerable amount of research in Indonesia until his death in Lembang, just north of Bandung, in 1864.

Nepenthes ovata

Nepenthes ovata was first collected as early as November 1840 or 1841 by Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn on Mount Lubukraya (Loeboekraja).

Willem Hendrik de Vriese

He also completed works which were initiated by Reinwardt and German botanist Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809–1864), and was the author of noteworthy treatises on cinchona (1855), vanilla (1856) and camphor (1856).



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