Re: botanical babble
Julius & Beverly Elischer wrote:
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> Barry Garcia wrote:
>
> > Here in Marina, as a kid we used to call the Oxalis "sour grass"
> > because of the sour juice in the stem. We used to munch on the flower
> > stems whenever they popped up in the winter. Wel also thought the
> > flowers were buttercups too. A teacher told us that if you put a butter cup under your chin on a sunny day, the yellow would be reflected, and thats just what happened when we did it with the oxalis flowers. So thats why we thought it was a butter cup!
>
And Bev commented
> As for "buttercups" I think I've heard it called that here, too -
> anything with a yellow flower seems to get that tag from people who have
> never seen a *real* Buttercup.
>
Hi Beverly
And in New Zealand ,where all sorts of buttercups, native and
introduced, are a commonplace the magnificent white buttercup Ranunculus
insignis was called the Mount Cook LILY by early European settlers!!
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, New Zealand
