Malus florentina Malus florentina Malus florentina is a species of apple known by the common names Florentine crabapple and hawthorn-leaf crabapple. It is native to the Balkan Peninsula and Italy, and it is grown elsewhere as an ornamental tree. The botanical name "florentina" and common name "florentine" are remarking the source of the municipality of Florence, Italy that has a major history of botanical collection in their famous renaissance gardens, and the other common name "hawthorn-leaf" is remarking its distinct toothed leaf shape which closely resembles that of a hawthorn and is unusual for a crabapple. Tree is deciduous, upright and vase
Egyptian fruit bat Egyptian fruit bat The Egyptian fruit bat or Egyptian rousette ("Rousettus aegyptiacus") is a species of Old World fruit bat. Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire originally gave this species the specific name of "egyptiacus" in 1810, but he later revised it to "ægyptiacus". In 1992, G. B. Corbet and J. E. Hill argued that this revision was invalid and changed the name back to "egyptiacus"; the 1999 "Mammalian Species" review used "egyptiacus" as well. However, Geoffroy's revision was argued to be valid in 2001 by D. Kock. He notes that the second spelling was "accepted almost universally by the scientific community", including