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Rare copy of Linnaeus' 'Systema Naturae' exhibited for 300th anniversary
Carl Linnaeus believed that the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge was not an apple but a banana. He came to this conclusion in 1737, while studying plant specimens at Hartecamp, the estate of George Clifford, a wealthy Dutch banker and director of the Dutch East India Company. Clifford collected exotic plants from around the world and had succeeded in getting a banana plant to flower and bear fruit in his greenhouse. Linnaeus' belief in the theological significance of the banana is enshrined in the name he gave it: Musa paradisiaca.