Chapter 1
The boy who talked to flowers
Chapter 2
The system of sexual secrets
Chapter 3
Two names to rule them all
Chapter 4
Apostles of the green world
YOUR GOAL
Master of How Carl von Linne sorted the world
Ch 2 · The system of sexual secrets
galleta Linnaeus's Sexual System
Just count the stamens and find the class, to sort the wild flowers of the world.
galleta As the father of modern taxonomy, Linné used his system of sexual secrets to categorize animals, plants, and
BETA
galleta Match flowers by their traits to learn how Linnaeus created modern plant classification.
Fun Fact
The scandalous system: A prominent botanist once called Linnaeus's system 'loathsome harlotry' because it compared flower pollination to human marriages.
Glossary
stamen (noun)
The male fertilizing organ of a flower, typically consisting of a pollen-producing anther and a filament. In 1735, Carl Linnaeus used the number and arrangement of these organs to classify plant species.
The male fertilizing organ of a flower, typically consisting of a pollen-producing anther and a filament. In 1735, Carl Linnaeus used the number and arrangement of these organs to classify plant species.
galleta Critics like Johann Siegesbeck dismissed the system as obscene, but its scientific utility eventually overcame the Papal States'
galleta Carl Linnaeus introduced a controversial plant classification system based on plant reproduction.