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Veena.K

Do you know the Latin names of plants in your garden?

Posted - March 19, 2017
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  • 7683
    Great!
      March 21, 2017 4:36 PM MDT
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  • Dear Veena.K,
    Well I did have some teenage moments of fascination with Linnaeus...
    So no, I do not know the cultivated flowers in your garden, but I DID learn names for 100 of the wildflowers growing around the Pacific raincoast here...

    One of my favourites? Common name Devil's Club = Latin name, Oplopanax horridum! This amazing stuff can cover large tracts of forestland, with leaves double the size of plates, and thorns that will not quit...

     
      This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at March 21, 2017 8:01 PM MDT
      March 20, 2017 9:25 AM MDT
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  • 7683
    Oh wow, your knowledge about plants is extensive Virginia...awesome!
      March 21, 2017 4:37 PM MDT
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  • Ha ha, well Dear Veena, that is actually about the only plant I remember now...it is so dramatic, so prickly, and its wonderful name "horridum"...!
      March 21, 2017 4:46 PM MDT
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  • 7683
    Horridum .....but but it sounds a bit like horrific;(((
      March 21, 2017 4:58 PM MDT
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  • Yes...the plant is quite intimidating, I thought whoever named it had a sense of humour!
      March 21, 2017 5:02 PM MDT
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  • 7683
    Yes Virginia;))
      March 21, 2017 7:52 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    My garden is a potted plant. I don't even know if it is a he or a she.
      March 20, 2017 9:31 AM MDT
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  • I had a boyfriend who was filling in an application for a university place and in the 'what are your hobbies' section he said 'pot plants'. What he actually had was an onion growing in some soil. 
    Didn't look good either way.
      March 20, 2017 9:51 AM MDT
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  • 7683
    Oh....umm aren't plants asexual..?
      March 21, 2017 4:38 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    You can't tell by their names what gender they are. 
      March 21, 2017 4:52 PM MDT
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  • 7683
    I did have botany in high school, but never bothered about gender of a plant...that is interesting!
      March 21, 2017 4:57 PM MDT
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  • 2960
    I don't have a garden or plants.
      March 21, 2017 8:11 PM MDT
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  • 7683
    It is ok, in urban areas nowadays all you see is buildings..!
      March 21, 2017 8:34 PM MDT
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  • 2960
    I don't live in an urban area. My "yard" is a desolate mess.
      March 21, 2017 8:36 PM MDT
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  • 7683
    Oh!
      March 21, 2017 8:36 PM MDT
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