Re: Correct plant names

**Graham Rice g*@tiscali.co.uk**

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 02:13:16 -0400 "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net> writes:

 When it comes to writing about plants, I think we have two
 responsibilities to our readers:  1) to provide them with the most
 currently accurate name we can locate

When Amorphophallus riverii became properly Amorphophallus konjac, I made
the change. My readers don't care about a new name of a plant they have
never heard of. But taxonomists have recently been putzing around with
chrysanthemums and coleus, to name two, and I am not going to confuse my
readers by new names for their old favorites, names I have read about and
promptly forgotten.

D

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