Harry Potter and A New Species

Macrocarpaea apparata is a newly discovered species in the gentian family named after the verb "apparate", frequently used in the Harry Potter series of books. Native to Ecuador, it is a small tree, to 5m tall with yellowish-white bell-shaped flowers.

Links:

Rutgers Plant Science Looks to Harry Potter from the website of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Macrocarpaea apparata fact sheet
The Plant Press, a PDF newsletter from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Scroll to page 6 for their article on Macrocarpaea apparata

Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 3:00 AM on November 28, 2003

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