The name "Boskoop" has been given to an apple cultivar (Belle de Boskoop) which is widely distributed in the Low Countries, to a grape variety (Boskoops Glory) and also to a variety of Calluna (Boskoop) and Weigela (Boskoop Glory) and Black Currant ("Boskoop Giant").
Lange and Gumprecht, the two persons that reviewed Eine Reise um die Welt ...., sing his praise for the introduction and popularisation of the pretty garden shrub „Weigela Middendorfiana“ to Europe’s gardens.
The gardens hold the national collection of the genus Sarcococca, Weigela and the closely related Diervilla.
Weigela species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Brown-tail.
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