House of Farnese | Alessandro Farnese | Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma | Villa Farnese | Pier Luigi Farnese | Ottavio Farnese | Odoardo Di Santo | Odoardo Barri | Juan Manuel Cajigal y Odoardo | Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma | Farnese Hercules | Alexander Farnese | Alessandro Farnese (cardinal) | Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma | Odoardo Tabacchi | Odoardo's | Giulia Farnese | Francesco Farnese | Farnese Gardens | Farnese gardens | Farnese Bull | Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma |
Married to Dorothea Sophia of the Palatinate, his brother Odoardo's widow, to avoid the return of her dowry, Francesco curtailed court expenditure, enormous under his father and predecessor, Ranuccio II, while preventing the occupation of his Duchy of Parma, nominally a Papal fief, during the War of the Spanish Succession.
The taxon name farnesiana is specially named after Odoardo Farnese (1573–1626) of the notable Italian Farnese family which, after 1550, under the patronage of cardinal Alessandro Farnese, maintained some of the first private European botanical gardens in Rome, in the 16th and 17th centuries.