Re: African Iris bloom!
james singer wrote:
Here's some more trivia. Linnaeus named the genus, Moraea, for his
father-in-law, Johan Moraeus. And while I couldn't find a definition
for "gigandra," definitions for other giga+ words were either
indicators of large flowers or, more likely in this instance, I think,
long stems.
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In this case, it refers to the anthers; large anthers.
-jrf
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On Jul 30, 2006, at 10:20 AM, <sundrops@earthlink.net> wrote:
Beautiful flower! Could not let "grootflappie" pass by without a try
at finding its meaning -- assume the word is Afrikaans / Dutch, and
"groot" means great or big; "flappie" a bit more problematic but
found an on-line dictionary which gave back the translation "flounce"
(or ruffle) for "flap" in Dutch..... ???
--Barb, Grass Valley CA, where the high will be only in the high 80s
today!!
--
Jim Fisher
Vienna, Virginia USA
38.9 N 77.2 W
USDA Zone 7
Max. 95 F [36 C], Min. 10 F [-12 C]
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