Immediate favor with Westerners This extraordinarily versatile Chinese plant was finally discovered, with surprise and delight, by 19th-century Western botanists and missionaries, who collected it and sent it back to enrich the gardens of their homelands.
這樣在中國「物盡其用」的植物，終於在十九世紀的時候，被西方來的植物學家、傳教士「驚為天果」，搜羅到他們國家「亟待充實的後花園」了。