Everything about Flora Danica totally explained
A product of
The Age of Enlightenment,
Flora Danica is a comprehensive atlas of
botany, containing folio-sized pictures of all the wild plants native to
Denmark, as of
1874.
It was proposed by
G. C. Oeder, then professor of botany at the
Botanic Garden in Copenhagen, in
1753 and was completed 123 years later, in
1883. The complete work comprises 51 parts and 3 supplements, containing 3,240 copper engraved plates. The originalplan was to cover all plants, including
bryophytes,
lichens and
fungi native to crown lands of the
Danish king, that's
Denmark,
Schleswig-Holstein,
Oldenburg-
Delmenhorst and
Norway with its
North Atlantic dependencies
Iceland, the
Faroe Islands and
Greenland. However, changes were made due to territorial cessations during the period of publication. After
1814, when the double monarchy of
Denmark-
Norway was abolished, very few Norwegian plants were included, and similar changes were seen after
1864, when the duchies of
Schleswig and
Holstein were ceded. However, in the mid-19-century era of
Scandinavism, the
Nordic Natural Scientists Meeting in
Roskilde proposed tomake
Flora Danica a
Scandinavian work. Thus, three supplementary volumes were issued, containing the remaining
Norwegian plants and the more important plants only occurring in
Sweden.
Publishers/editors through time:
Dinner set
In
1790 the Danish
Crown Prince Frederik ordered a dinner set made decorated with exact copies of the plates of
Flora Danica. The dinner set was supposedly meant as a gift for
Russian
Empress Catherine II. Catherine, however, never received it, as she died in
1796.
The dinner set is still in use for state occasions in the
Christiansborg Palace in
Copenhagen. Copies of the set are sold by the
Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory.
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