Marianne Ahrne, Uppsala wrote:
Fuchsias are named after Leonard Fuchs, a German botanist who died in 1566.
His name
means "fox" (.....)
I am sorry to appear pedantic but I have seen so many spellings I can't
take it any more, and, after all, Linneaus' homes and gardens are in and
outside my city. He was a professor at Uppsala University and the
inventor of the binomial nomenclature of plants.
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