Carl Linnaeus — "The calyx is the marriage bed, the corolla the bed-curtains, the filaments the s…"

The calyx is the marriage bed, the corolla the bed-curtains, the filaments the spermatic vessels, the anthers the testes, the pollen the semen, the pistil the vagina, the ovary the uterus, the ovules the ova, the pericarp the womb, and the seeds the offspring.
Carl Linnaeus — Carl Linnaeus Early Modern · Biological taxonomy

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A direct and explicit description of plant sexual organs and reproduction using human anatomical terms, shocking to many contemporaries.

Date: 1735 (Systema Naturae, or Philosophia Botanica)

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