Re: Colloquial vs scientific names

>Thanks for all the extra research on the part of all the Suranoslueths! My
>local indian marts had, besides edoes and things that looked like
>Xanthosomas, a suran lookalike called "ratalu". Any ideas?
>Bonaventure


Here is a site that attempts to give some equivalence between 
colloquial names and botanical names

http://www.winphatak.com/gazetteer/agriculture020.htm

It seems to have its share of mispellings and taxonomic inaccuracies, 
however.  They say that "ratalu" is Convolvulus batatas (= Dioscorea 
batatas?), but I wouldn't think that would look too much like a 
suran.  Perhaps the "rajalu" fits this bill?

-- 
Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
l*@wi.rr.com
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