Plants Named After Robert Fortune
- Arundinaria fortunei
- Cephalotaxus fortunei
- Cyrtomium fortunei
- Euonymus fortunei
- Hosta fortunei
- Keteleeria fortunei
- Mahonia fortunei
- Maxburretia fortunei
- Osmanthus fortunei
- Pleioblastus fortunei
- Rhododendron fortunei
- Rosa fortuniana
- Trachycarpus fortunei
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Famous quotes containing the words plants, named and/or fortune:
“All plants move, but they don’t usually pull themselves out of the ground and chase you.”
—Philip Yordan (b. 1913)
“1946: I go to graduate school at Tulane in order to get distance from a “possessive” mother. I see a lot of a red-haired girl named Maude-Ellen. My mother asks one day: “Does Maude-Ellen have warts? Every girl I’ve known named Maude-Ellen has had warts.” Right: Maude-Ellen had warts.”
—Bill Bouke (20th century)
“Building up a family’s fortune is like moving earth with a needle, but losing a family’s fortune can be as swift as a boat rushing downstream with the current.”
—Chinese proverb.