Mandarin Park

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The Mandarin Park located in the neighborhood of Mandarin Village, Noble City is dedicated to the famous Carolus Linnaeus.

[edit] Linnaeus

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Carolus Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of nomenclature. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy." and also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology.

Linnaeus was born in the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. His father was the first in his ancestry to adopt a permanent last name; hitherto, ancestors had used the patronymic naming system of Scandinavian countries. His father adopted the Latin-form name Linnaeus after a giant linden tree on the family homestead.

[edit] Linnaea borealis

During summer, the Linnaea borealis, commonly known as twinflower makes extensive, flowering carpets of the many flowerbeds in Mandarin Park.

This subschrubby perennial it is one of few species to be named after Carolus Linnaeus, the naming having been formally made by Linnaeus' teacher, Jan Frederik Gronovius.

It is said to have been Linnaeus' favourite plant; he took the flower as his own personal symbol when he was raised to the Swedish nobility in 1757.

Of it, Linnaeus said:

Linnaea was named by the celebrated Gronovius and is a plant of Lapland,

lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief time from Linnaeus, who resembles it.

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