Re: A few Questions
- To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L
- Subject: Re: A few Questions
- From: C* W*
- Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 11:21:01 -0500 (CDT)
Hello Aroiders:
Alsocasia is a good bilingual pun, too. Also (English) casi a (Spanish)
might mean "Also almost at".
Regards, Clark
Clark Weston
USDA Zone 8 El Paso, Texas
<bk161@rgfn.epcc.edu>
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> In a message dated 7/13/00 7:30:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> ju-bo@email.msn.com writes:
>
> << Colocasia and Alsocasia do seem to
> be closely related >>
>
> Normally I do not comment on typos, but this one struck me: perhaps, if a
new
> genus very much like Alocasia was discovered, it could be named Alsocasia
(a
> pun with the word "also").
>
> Jason Hernandez
> Naturalist-at-Large
>
>
>
>
