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SPRENGEL, Christian Konrad (1750 – 1816)

1750 – 1816

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1793

#104.1

Das entdeckte Geheimnis der Natur im Bau und in der Befruchtung der Blumen.

Sprengel demonstrated for the first time that the whole structure of nectar-bearing flowers is adapted for fertilization by insects. In his study of the Rose-bay Sprengel discovered dichogamy – that in some plants the…