Saw this in and around Smuggler Cove Provincial Park (Sunshine Coast) at the start of July. Can anyone help me ID it?
Named after and by the great man himself, Carl Linnaeus. Father of the botanical latin we all use today.
Named after Linnaeus, but named by Gronovius, who was Linnaeus's teacher. "Linnaea was named by the celebrated Gronovius and is a plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space—from Linnaeus, who resembles it" - Carolus Linnaeus, Critica Botanica (1737).
Oh, I had read that he named it after himself and that it was an odd choice of plant to name after himself as it was fairly insignificent. Best I read that part of the book again me thinks. Late night reading can often lead to confusion or misinterpretation.
