Re: Rhaphidophora sp. at Fairchild Tropical Garden
- To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L
- Subject: Re: Rhaphidophora sp. at Fairchild Tropical Garden
- From: L*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 19:13:29 -0500 (CDT)
Sorry this post got away from me prematurely. I should have also included:
In a message dated 06/24/2000 3:58:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Lewandjim
writes:
<< Subj: Re: Rhaphidophora sp. at Fairchild Tropical Garden
Date: 06/24/2000 3:58:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: Lewandjim
To: aroid-l@mobot.org
In a message dated 06/23/2000 7:42:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
ju-bo@email.msn.com writes:
<< Take heart Pete, with a LITTLE imagination (I can assist with this
aspect!)
and some thought to the phallic 'background' to OUR group of plants, the
list of available species epithets is truly mind boggling!
>>
Julius,
The taxonomists dealing with live-bearing fishes beat you to the punch! for
example:
Heterophallus
Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora
Phalloceros
Dactylophallus
Priapichthys
Xenophallus
and many more examples less obtusely named!
Jim Langhammer >>
