A commonly grown species, C. bartramia is named after John Bartram and known as the brown kurrajong or Christmas kurrajong because it flowers at Christmas.
It describes a visit to the famous Pennsylvanian botanist, Mr. John Bertram.
The school was named after a famous American Botanist, John Bartram.
Early American naturalist John Bartram and his son visited the falls on his famous 1753 expedition to the area.
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Peter Collinson, F.R.S., wrote to the Pennsylvania gardener and botanist John Bartram, proposing to send him some, and remarked that John Custis of Virginia had a fine "collection", which Ann Leighton interpreted as signifying common and Persian lilacs, in both purple and white, "the entire range of lilacs possible" at the time.