Journal article
The production of a physiological puzzle: how Cytisus adami confused and inspired a century’s botanists, gardeners, and evolutionists
- Abstract:
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‘Adam’s laburnum’ (or Cytisus adami), produced by accident in 1825 by Jean-Louis Adam, a nurseryman in Vitry, became a commercial success within the plant trade for its striking mix of yellow and purple flowers. After it came to theattention of members of La Socie´te´ d’Horticulture de Paris, the tree gained enormous fame as a potential instance of the much sought-after ‘graft hybrid’, a hypothetical idea that by grafting one plant onto another, a mixture of the two could be produced. As I sh...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Springer Publisher's website
- Journal:
- History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Journal website
- Volume:
- 40
- Issue:
- 3
- Publication date:
- 2018-08-21
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-07-08
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1742-6316
- ISSN:
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0391-9714
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:951592
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- pubs:951592
- Source identifiers:
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951592
- Deposit date:
- 2018-12-12
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- Copyright holder:
- Lidwell-Durnin, J
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- © The Author(s) 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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