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    Carl Peter Thunberg, also known as Karl Peter von Thunberg, Carl Pehr Thunberg, or Carl Per Thunberg (11 November 1743 – 8 August 1828), was a Swedish...
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    Citrus japonica (category Taxa named by Carl Peter Thunberg)
    species of citrus fruit in the genus Citrus. It was first described by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1780 as Fortunella japonica. C. japonica is a native species in...
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  • Thunberg is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Carl Peter Thunberg (1743–1828), Swedish naturalist Anna Sofia Thunberg (1790–1871), Swedish...
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    Tinospora cordifolia (category Taxa named by Carl Peter Thunberg)
    Tinospora cordifolia (common names heart-leaved moonseed, amrita, guduchi (in Sanskrit), gurbel or giloy, among others) is a herbaceous vine of the family...
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    growing to 2–8 m tall. The generic name honours the Swedish naturalist Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828). Its members are known by various names, including thunbergias...
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    South Africa. Perhaps the most famous and successful apostle was Carl Peter Thunberg, who embarked on a nine-year expedition in 1770. He stayed in South...
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    Ophiopogon japonicus (category Taxa named by Carl Peter Thunberg)
    Ophiopogon japonicus (dwarf lilyturf, mondograss, fountainplant, monkeygrass; Japanese: リュウノヒゲ ryu-no-hige ("dragon's beard") or ジャノヒゲ ja-no-hige ("snake's...
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    Apostles of Linnaeus (category Carl Linnaeus)
    Åren 1772-1776 in three volumes, 1783-1818. Just like Linnaeus, Carl Peter Thunberg (1743–1828) arrived in Uppsala at the age of 18. Having completed...
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    thatching; the more popular thatching reed was Thamnochortus insignis. Carl Peter Thunberg also noted the use in thatching in 1793, as did English botanist...
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    Zelkova serrata (category Taxa named by Carl Peter Thunberg)
    Zelkova serrata (Japanese zelkova, Japanese elm, keyaki, or keaki; Japanese: 欅 (ケヤキ) keyaki /槻 (ツキ) tsuki; Chinese: 榉树/櫸樹 jǔshù; Korean: 느티나무 neutinamu)...
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    Japan before he met Japanese castaways, reading books written by Carl Peter Thunberg, with whom Laxmann had some communication. In 1789, while doing research...
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    Chlorophytum comosum (category Taxa named by Carl Peter Thunberg)
    the Swedish naturalist Carl Peter Thunberg as Anthericum comosum in the 1794 volume of Prodromus Plantarum Capensium, Thunberg's work on the plants of...
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    Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɡrêːta ˈtʉ̂ːnbærj] ; born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish environmental activist known for...
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    on 1 June 1773. The story was reported by the Swedish naturalist Carl Peter Thunberg who was in South Africa as a surgeon for the Vereenigde Oostindische...
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    persimmon variety. E. japonica was again described in Europe by Carl Peter Thunberg, as Mespilus japonica in 1780, and was relocated to the genus Eriobotrya...
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    Hydrangea hirta (category Taxa named by Carl Peter Thunberg)
    Hydrangea hirta, also known as the nettle-leaved hydrangea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Hydrangeaceae that is native to East Asia. Due...
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    garden by the botanist-surgeon Carl Peter Thunberg, who included it (as a lilac) in his Flora Japonica 1784. Thunberg's professional connections lay with...
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    Suwa-Shrine under escort. Sometimes physicians such as Engelbert Kaempfer, Carl Peter Thunberg, and Philipp Franz von Siebold were called to high-ranking Japanese...
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    as a culinary herb. The genus was originally described in 1783 by Carl Peter Thunberg when he formally described H. cordata as the only species. It remained...
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    specific epithet thunbergii refers to the 18th-century Swedish botanist Carl Peter Thunberg. In cultivation this plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's...
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    epithet thunbergii honours the Swedish botanist and plant collector Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828). Growing to 1.5 m (4.9 ft) tall and broad, Spiraea thunbergii...
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    than 2000 years. Whether the species was first described by Carl Peter Thunberg or Carl Linnaeus the Younger is disputed. The scientific name Diospyros...
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    bayberry, is plant species in the family Podocarpaceae named by Carl Peter Thunberg. Nageia nagi is native to China, Japan, and Taiwan. It was formerly...
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    Phymateus (category Taxa named by Carl Peter Thunberg)
    baccatus Stål, 1876 Phymateus leprosus (Fabricius, 1793) subgenus Phymateus Thunberg, 1815 Phymateus aegrotus (Gerstaecker, 1869) Phymateus bolivari Kirby,...
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    Dracaena aethiopica (category Taxa named by Carl Peter Thunberg)
    Dracaena aethiopica is a species of succulent plant widely distributed in Southern Africa. Its binomial name—aethiopica—refers to its origins in Africa...
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  • Rothmannia was named after him by his friend, the Swedish botanist Carl Peter Thunberg. Biography Dissertation under Linnaeus Eintrag im Svenskt biografiskt...
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  • Cyperus marginatus (category Taxa named by Carl Peter Thunberg)
    Cyperus marginatus is a species of sedge that is native to Angola, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho, and Eswatini in southern Africa, and Kenya...
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    Gynostemma pentaphyllum (category Taxa named by Carl Peter Thunberg)
    Retrieved 2 May 2018. Shukun Chen & Charles Jeffrey. "Gynostemma pentaphyllum (Thunberg) Makino, Bot. Mag. (Tokyo). 16: 179. 1902". Flora of China. Missouri Botanical...
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    to Southern Africa. Genetta felina was first described in 1811 by Carl Peter Thunberg. It was considered a subspecies of the common genet (Genetta genetta)...
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    Searsia erosa (category Taxa named by Carl Peter Thunberg)
    Searsia erosa, or the broom karee, is a shrub native to Botswana, South Africa, and Lesotho. "Broom Karee". redlist.sanbi.org. South African National Biodiversity...
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