Agapeyes Megacarpa

Agapeyes Megacarpa in full bloom

Agapetes is in family Ericaceae and was originally named in 1834 by George Don (1798–1856), a botanist who worked at the Chelsea Physic Garden and collected for the Royal Horticultural Society in Brazil, Sierra Leone and the West Indies; he had a brother, David Don (1799/1800–1841) who was also a botanist. Their father, George Don (1764–1814), was a Scottish botanist appointed to the post of Superintendent at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) in 1792 (Muir, 1994). George Don initially described 16 species of Agapetes (Don, 1834).The name Agapetes comes from the Greek agapetos meaning beloved or desirable; agape – love; agapeo – to be well contented with. This is a reference to the plants being showy or beautiful (Quattrocchi, 2000) which is quite obvious when one looks closely at the flowers (Fig. 1).There are roughly 100 accepted species of the 220 names ever recorded for the genus Agapetes (Missouri Botanical Garden, 2015) and they are closely related to the genera Paphia, Dimorphanthera and the Southeast Asian Vaccinium.

Agapeyes Megacarpa

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The pictures taken from Facebook account Mel Ong (My Nice Garden Chat) from Ipoh, Malaysia. Thank you Mr Mel Ong for your pictures.

Sources: The Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture, No. 13

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