Andromeda polifolia

Translingual thumb|Andromeda polifolia L. Etymology The epithet mul Polifolia (used as a noun and hence being capitalized by early botanists) was used by Carl Linnaeus in 1753, inherited from Poliifolia genus used by Johann Christian Buxbaum in 1727, originally coined in Jean Bauhin's posthumously issued Historia Plantarum which was published in 1650, from mul Polium Poli(um) + la -i- + la folia leaves. Bauhin was describing and naming a plant which had foliage similar to that of a plant that he knew as Polium (likely Teucrium montanum species L., commonly known as mountain germander), descended from Latin la polium, alt. form of la polion, from Greek grc πόλιον (Teucrium polium species).en E. Charles Nelson P. H. Oswald Polifolia revisited and explained http://www.huntbotanical.org/admin/uploads/02hibd-huntia-12-1-pp5-12.pdf PDF http://www.huntbotanical.org/publications/show.php?74 Huntia: A Journal of Botanical History Pittsburgh Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation 2005 12 1 5–11 0073-4071 https://web.archive.org/web/20251117194620/https://www.huntbotanical.org/publications/show.php?74 17 November 2025, citing Historia Plantarum, tomus 1, liber 5, caput X, page 525. Proper noun 1 f Andromeda genus polifolius polifolia la species family Ericaceae bog rosemary Hypernyms species Ericales order order; Ericaceae family family; Vaccinioideae subfamily subfamily; Andromedeae tribe tribe; Andromeda genus genus See also Teucrium polium species References 1 1 1 mul Heather family plants