Carl Ludwig Sprenger was a German botanist, born on 30 November 1846 at Güstrow, Mecklembourg and died 13 December 1917 on the island of Corfu. Botany is the scientific study of plant life. ... Güstrow is a town in the Land of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. ... Pontikonisi island in the background with the Vlaheraina Monastery in the foreground. ...

Canna Italian Group 'Austria', Sprenger 1893

• He lived in Naples from 1877 to 1917, and was a partner in the horticultural house of Dammann & Co. of San Giovanni a Teduccio, Naples, Italy.

• David Fairchild praised Sprenger, "a brilliant botanist who had established a nursery...he was one of those real plantsmen who both know the names of plants and how to grow them....

• The eruption of Vesuvius [April 4, 1906] buried his plants under volcanic ash, destroying hundreds of his best specimens."

• Sprenger was known to roam mountain sides and meadows. He enthusiastically collected seeds for botanical gardens and freely gave of his knowledge to others.

• In 1907, Kaiser Wilhelm (William II) purchased Achilleion, a garden with a palace on Corfu (Kerkyra). Sprenger became supervisor of the Kaiser's garden.

• Sprenger's life had had no sound; Fairchild wrote that he was "very deaf". Perhaps he loved plants so much because they spoke in colors, shapes, and scents. In the end, he did not even have flowers.

• The man who surrounded himself with plants died December 13, 1917, a hostage of war. Being German and living on a Greek island in the middle of the First World War was high-risk, but at 70 years of age he was not prepared to leave behind his beloved plants and move to another country. Nobody was able to establish what really happened, but it is hard to see what threat a 71 year old, deaf, botanist posed that justified his murder.

Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 1028 KB) Summary Summary Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 1028 KB) Summary Summary Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Country Italy Region Campania Province Naples (NA) Mayor Rosa Russo Jervolino Elevation 17 m Area 117 km² Population  - Total (as of December 31, 2004) 1,000,470  - Density 8,457/km² Time zone CET, UTC+1 Coordinates Gentilic Napoletani Dialing code 081 Postal code 80100 Patron Saint Januarius  - Day September... David Fairchild in 1889, while employed at the United States Department of Agriculture David Grandison Fairchild (April 7, 1869 - August 6, 1954) was an American botanist and plant explorer. ... Mount Vesuvius (Italian: Monte Vesuvio) is a volcano east of Naples, Italy, located at 40°49′N 14°26′ E. It is the only active volcano on the European mainland, although it is not currently erupting. ... Inside the United States Botanic Garden Botanical gardens grow a wide variety of plants both for scientific purposes and for the enjoyment and education of visitors. ... William II (born Frederick William Albert Victor) (27 January 1859–4 June 1941), was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia (German: Wilhelm II., Deutscher Kaiser und König von Preußen), ruling both the German Empire and Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918. ... Pontikonisi island in the background with the Vlaheraina Monastery in the foreground. ... Pontikonisi island in the background with the Vlaheraina Monastery in the foreground. ...

Cultivars created

Cannas

Canna Italian Group 'Italia', Sprenger 1893

Sprenger concluded that by constantly interbreeding the large flowered Crozy varieties nothing novel or more remarkable could be secured, and he, therefore, experimented with some new blood, employing for this purpose the Canna flaccida, a species of the southern USA, of medium height and large flowers, with one specially developed petal. The result was what became known as the 'Orchid' Cannas or the 'Italian' Cannas. At the same time, Luther Burbank in the USA was pursuing a similar approach. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1265x1193, 222 KB) Summary Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1265x1193, 222 KB) Summary Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... Binomial name Canna flaccida Salisb. ... Luther Burbank - c1902 Luther Burbank - The Wizard of Horticulture Luther Burbank (March 7, 1849–April 11, 1926) was an American botanist, horticulturist, and pioneer of agricultural science. ...

• 1893, Canna 'Italia' and Canna 'Austria'
• 1894, Canna 'Atalanta', Canna 'America', Canna 'Burgundia' and Canna 'Allemaniana'
• 1895, Canna 'Bavaria', Canna 'Britannia' , Canna 'Heinrich Seidel'
• 1896, Canna 'Pandora'
• 1897, Canna 'Edouard André', Canna 'Parthénopé' and Canna 'Roma'
• 1907, Canna 'Wilhelm Bofinger', Canna 'Pluto'
• 1909, Canna 'Roi Humbert'

Canna Austria is a medium sized Italian Group Canna cultivar. ... Canna Italian Group Roma® is a tall aquatic Italian Group cultivar, equally at home as a water marginal or in the border; green foliage, oval shaped, white margin, upright habit; round stems, coloured green & purple; flowers are open, yellow with orange blotches, throat red-orange, staminoides are large, edges lightly...

Yuccas

Sprenger created and named 122 beautiful hybrids in the years from 1897 to 1907:

Yucca treculeana canaliculata x Yucca recurvifolia (= Yucca treculeana x Yucca recurvifolia)

• Yucca X Elwesiana
• Yucca X Fosterana
• Yucca X Lawrensceana
• Yucca X Diana

Yucca treculeana canaliculata x gloriosa(= Yucca treculeana x Yucca gloriosa)

• Yucca X Minerva

Yucca gloriosa x filamentosa

• Yucca X Nicotrana (no pollen)
• Yucca X Rex (Yucca gloriosa minor X Yucca filamentosa)

Yucca gloriosa robusta x flaccida

• Yucca X Dux

Yucca gloriosa longifolia x flaccida

• Yucca X luxurians

Yucca gloriosa plicata x Yucca recurvifolia

• Yucca X Darwinii

Yucca flexilis x filamentosa

• Yucca X Augusta

Yucca flexilis x flaccida glaucescens

• Yucca X regalis

Yucca filamentosa x flexilis

• Yucca X Saturnus

Yucca flaccida x flexilis

• Yucca X Gaea

Yucca rupicola x gloriosa

• Yucca X aletrodes

Yucca rupicola x Yucca recurvifolia

• Yucca X Sokrates

Yucca filamentosa x Yucca rupicola

• Yucca X liliacea
• Yucca X Psyche
• Yucca X Treleasei

Yucca flaccida x Yucca rupicola

• Yucca X amonea
• Yucca X Atropos
• Yucca X paradoxa

Yucca aloifolia x filamentosa

• Yucca X Adenophora
• Yucca X fastuosa
• Yucca X Ismene
• Yucca X linearis
• Yucca X linifolia
• Yucca X virescens

Yucca aloifolia x flaccida

• Yucca X Candolleana
• Yucca X columnaris
• Yucca X Oceanus

Yucca aloifolia x Yucca rupicola

• Yucca X smaragdina

Yucca aloifolia x Yucca gloriosa

• Yucca X Europa
• Yucca X Naudiniana
• Yucca X vomerensis

Yucca aloifolia gigantea x Yucca recurvifolia

• Yucca X Heliodorus

Yucca aloifolia purpurea x Yucca recurvifolia

• Yucca X Victor Emmanuel II (Vittorio Emanuele II)

Yucca aloifolia x flexilis

• Yucca X Casertana
• Yucca X Helios
• Yucca X Sieheana

Yucca aloifolia marginata x flexilis

• Yucca X Titanus

Yucca filamentosa x Yucca aloifolia

• Yucca X Ada
• Yucca X Alexandrae
• Yucca X Boissieri
• Yucca X Dohrnii
• Yucca X tulipfera
• Yucca 'Washington'

Yucca flaccida x Yucca aloifolia

• Yucca X Draco
• Yucca X Mariea
• Yucca X pygmaea
• Yucca X pyramidalis
• Yucca X Roland
• Yucca X stellaris
• Yucca X Theseus
• Yucca X tortilis

Yucca flexilis x Yucca recurvifolia

• Yucca X grandis
• Yucca X superba

Yucca filamentosa x Yucca gloriosa

• Yucca X albella
• Yucca X candida
• Yucca X Engelmanii
• Yucca X ensata
• Yucca X floribunda
• Yucca X margaritacea
• Yucca X micans
• Yucca X Moraea
• Yucca X Parthenope
• Yucca X preacox
• Yucca X Rekowskiana
• Yucca X robusta
• Yucca X Triton
• Yucca X Wilhelmi (Gugielmi)

Yucca filamentosa media x Yucca gloriosa

• Yucca X bicolor
• Yucca X elegantissima
• Yucca X elmensis ('St. Elmo')

Yucca filamentosa x Yucca recurvifolia

• Yucca X Aurora
• Yucca X Ceres
• Yucca X exsultans
• Yucca X Federicus Cäsar
• Yucca X Lachesis
• Yucca X lanceolata
• Yucca X Magnolia
• Yucca X peregrina
• Yucca X princeps
• Yucca X viridiflora
• Yucca X Willmottiana

Yucca filamentosa media x Yucca recurvifolia

• Yucca X fulgens
• Yucca X Imperator
• Yucca X regia
• Yucca X Sanderana
• Yucca X victorialis
• Yucca X Klotho
• Yucca X Cybele
• Yucca X imperialis
• Yucca X Koelleana
• Yucca X Milton
• Yucca X Passiflora
• Yucca X purpurascens
• Yucca X Tenoreana
• Yucca X Virgilius
• Yucca X Wittmackiana

Yucca flaccida x Yucca gloriosa longifolia

• Yucca X luxurians

Yucca flaccida glaucescens x Yucca gloriosa

• Yucca X Colombiana
• Yucca X formosa
• Yucca X formosissima
• Yucca X nebularis

Yucca flaccida glaucescens x Yucca recurvifolia

• Yucca X amabilis
• Yucca X campanulata
• Yucca X caelestis
• Yucca 'Eros'
• Yucca 'Flora'
• Yucca 'Luna'
• Yucca X grasilis

References

• Garden and Forest. / Volume 8, Issue 409. [December 25, 1895, 511-520]
• Henry John Elwes and Augustine Henry, The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Privately Published, 1907
• David Fairchild, - The World was My Garden: Travels of a Plant Explorer, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938
• John Hendley Barnhart (1965). Biographical Notes upon Botanists. G.K. Hall & Co. (Boston).

External links

• Who was Carl Ludwig Sprenger?