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Etimology of the words " hesper palm"

Alberto

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Alberto

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Why Brahea sp are commonly referred to as "hesper palm" in English? Can somebody give me an answer to this? Thanks! 😀

Carambeí, 2nd tableland of the State Paraná , south Brazil.

Alt:1030m. Native palms: Queen, B. eriospatha, B. microspadix, Allagoptera leucocalyx , A.campestris, Geonoma schottiana, Trithrinax acanthocoma. Subtr. climate, some frosty nights. No dry season. August: driest month. Rain:1700mm

 

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Previus generic name was Erythea, in the mythology of the Greeks, Erythea was one of the Hesperides, daughters of Evening or the West, and the genus is distributed on the west coast of Mexico.

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Hester is the spanish version of the biblical name Esther which means 'small star' but I think Hester is a district in Mexico. (or named something longer but with Hester in it)

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27.35 south.

Warm subtropical, with occasional frosts.

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HI
what I reported above is what the botanist Sereno Watson wrote when in 1880 established the genus Erythea, today Brahea. I attach the fragment of the original publication in which the etymology is specified. To be even more precise, the first species described by Watson, Erythea edulis is native to Guadalupe Island, in the Pacific Ocean, off the western coast of Baja California (Mexico).

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Pietro Puccio

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