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| We were talking about common plant names and their AKA Latin names. I use both. I love the music of both. One is like Italian opera and the other has all the folksy magic of outsider poetry. Add yours that you like. I will start it out with a small list. Broom Whitlow Wort, Fringed Puccoon, Strangle weed, Witches shoe laces, beggar's lice, Toadflax, Shame Boy, Devil's claw,Bladderpod. come on , Add to the list. |
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- Posted by gardenweed_z6a N CT (My Page) on Sat, May 10, 14 at 18:09
| Talk about a mouthful: Nipponanthemum nipponicum - Montauk daisy Then the really tough one: Iris Aptly named: Chelone lyonii/turtlehead
And one that (at least in my mind) defies definition, description or explanation: Bugloss...huh? |
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- Posted by Gyr_Falcon Sunset 23 USDA 9 (My Page) on Sat, May 10, 14 at 18:33
| Kangaroo Paws (Anigozanthos) Hens and Chicks and one of my favorites... |
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- Posted by ken_adrian MI z5 (My Page) on Sat, May 10, 14 at 20:07
| you have to hear it with a whispered echo in your head: liquidamber ... there are others i will have to dredge up .... ken |
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| Redbirds in a tree - much more musical than scrophularia macrantha Cheryl |
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- Posted by TexasRanger10 7 (My Page) on Sat, May 10, 14 at 23:01
| I had to look liquidamber up. Sweet Gum. Cool name, real smooth. I can do the slothful part real quick. Takes me a while to do the latin so I did my google homework. Here's my list so far: Jumping Cholla (Opuntia bigelovii) woops, just looked up strangleweed. Thats another name for Dodder which is kind of creepy sounding so I like it. Strangleweed is new one on me. Maybe Dodderin' Strangleweed? |
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| I love some of the common names of annuals - love in a mist, love in a puff, love lies bleeding, kiss me over the garden gate - so poetic and dramatic, lol! The perennial bleeding heart fits in this category as well. Also, Queen Anne's Lace, and a favorite from childhood, butter and eggs - perfectly descriptive, both of them! And there's bachelors buttons, toad lilies, snapdragons, bells of ireland... One of my favorite latin names is cimicifuga, although I admit to being afraid to actually say it in public, in case I trip over my own tongue. Luckily, not too many opportunities come up in everyday conversation to say it.... :) Fun thread! |
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| Hi Two latin names Johanneistasjmannia try saying that in latin lol Alocasia infernalis which would translate "out of hell" or "hell like"?? Don't get it lol Two common names "Palm orchid" as you would suspect it doesn't belong in either family "Drunkards dream" try conjuring up a pic of what that looks like lol gary |
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| There's a Euonymus known as Hearts a bustin with love. Unfortuneatly, deer love it too. |
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| mmm, I also like both, especially when the latin nominates are utterly descriptive (amorphophallus). But anyway, here's a few off the top of my head Hottentot Fig - Carpobrotus edulis Hogweed (hieraceum spondilifera) Codlins and cream - epilobium hirsutum Skullcap - scutellaria cocksfoot - dactylis glomerata restharrow - ononis enchanter's nightshade - circaea henbane - hyocyamus niger Ladies bedstraw - galium verna Dame's rocket -hesperis matronalis bladder campion - silene all these are in my woods |
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- Posted by shadeyplace 7 (My Page) on Sun, May 11, 14 at 6:56
| skunk cabbage, coltsfoot, bloodroot, Dutchman's breeches, trout lily, pussytoes!, cuckoo flower, jack in the pulpit, Solomon's seal, goatsbeard, catnip, heal-all,and for mother's day>>motherwort. (leonurus cardiac) |
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- Posted by ken_adrian MI z5 (My Page) on Sun, May 11, 14 at 8:40
| i would like to here latin names with a texas ranger twang/drawl ... lol ken |
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- Posted by SunnyBorders 5A (My Page) on Sun, May 11, 14 at 9:16
| In the interests of the precise identification of plants: A current issue is the growing tendency for the plant trade to use trademark and other selling names instead of botanical cultivar names. |
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| LINARIA triornithophora - Three birds flying St. Mary's Thistle - Silybum marianum. I and most children under 10 start sniggering at the latin name of the latter. |
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- Posted by carolinaflowerlover 7bNC (My Page) on Sun, May 11, 14 at 10:37
| How about a combo of Latin and common names? I sent my husband a list of what I bought at the sale at the local agricultural center. Streptocarpus Blue Birds was on the list.....he asked if I bought strep throat for blue birds. Poor plant....that is what I call it now. :) |
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