Re: bulbs, corms tubers and other Geophytes...

LONDE@aol.com wrote:

> Yes, Hemerocallis is a member of the Liliaceae family. (In English, daylilies
> are in the lily family.) They are a different genus, but in the same family.
> Or at least they were.  If what Marge suspects is true, then the taxonomists
> have moved them.  I have a hard time believing that Kew list is a complete
> list.  Liliaceae is (was?) a big family.  Surely those crazed botanists
> didn't move over half of them.  Does anyone know for sure?

Janis, that's just THIS week.  NEXT week they'll move it all back!  ;-)

I find it easier to stick with the basic old stuff that's been firmly agreed
upon.  That way I don't have to try and keep up with all the proposed revisions,
rejected revisions, debates, arguments, criticisms, back-stabbing, political
intrigues, nationalism, and all the other stuff that goes on when scientists get
together (!!).  Nomenclature isn't as "carved in stone" as we hobbyists sometimes
think; it's a very fluid, ongoing process.  It's not at all like revising a
product catalogue or office procedure.

For the same reason, I don't go out and change my plant tags every time someone
proposes a revision to a genus.  As long as the plant is correctly identified
(the biggest problem that we as hobbyists face), the name will always be valid
even if it's not the currently suggested name.

Dean Sliger
Warren, MI, USA
Zone 6B












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