September, 2011
(Se
the “Smålands”flower Linnéa named after Carl von Linné, who invented the
sexual system of plants. Its so small and smell of vanilla in the night. It is
blooming in the beginning of June.)
The Twin Flower - Linnaea borealis is the national
flower of Sweden. It is named after Carl Linnaeus who is considered to be
the father of taxonomy; that is, the scientific classification of living
things. Linnaeus' system, that he developed nearly 300 years ago, now known as
the "Linnaean Classification System" is pretty much what is in
use today for classifying flowers. It includes that familiar Latin-
based two component system.
Linnaeus was born 1707 in
the Swedish province of Småland that is about ten miles from the little village of Nöttja
where your grandfather Carl Dahlin was born in 1887. The
photos were taken by Ann-Mari Dahlin, an architect that lives in Sweden, whose
grandfather was Carl's oldest brother
The twin flower is a very delicate
wild plant that grows in the spruce forest . It is about one inch
high that grows in pairs and smells like vanilla.
