Re: Botanical language
>Dear all,
>
>I know it can be a pain learning Latin names but it is easuer on us
>all in the long run, esp. when we are in groups like Medit-Plants.
>Here near Adelaide we have, in our very own garden, at least 5
>different yellow oxalis - all weedy introductions from Sth Africa -
>Cape Province, and all common 'lawn' weeds. Now which one would I be
>writing about if I just told you I had a 'yellow oxalis'? And how
>would you know if the one I was talking about was the same as the one
>you consider a weed? A bother at the beginning, but not all that hard
>really, to learn about Oxalis pes-caprae, O. corniculata, etc etc
>etc.
>
>regards
>
>trevor n
>
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>Trevor Nottle
>Garden Writer, Historian,
>Lecturer and Comsultant
>
> 'Walnut Hill'
> 5 Walker St
> Crafers SA 5152
> AUSTRALIA
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Fundamentally I agree with you.
Realistically however one has to care enough about the subject to
spend the amount of time necessary to distinguish between five different
yellow oxalices (what is the plural of 0xalis anyway?).
My main botanical interests are bromeliads and caudiciforms. Oxalis
doesn't fit either of these. Oxalis is not an interest to me, it's a
target! My only real interest in yellow oxalis is how to get rid of it and
that was the problem I was addressing. I suspect most of the others that
were writing on this subject have a similar disinterest in yellow oxalis as
a botanical specimen.
----Chas----
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