Re: Plant (re)naming
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- Subject: Re: Plant (re)naming
- From: M* T*
- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 03:46:19 -0500
Truffling Society! How neat.
Most interesting link, Anelle - I have not read all the subsequent
ones, but found the explanation in Bryan Ness's articles, 'A Deep
Green Story'
Part 1
http://botany.about.com/education/botany/library/weekly/aa082799.htm
and
Part 2
http://botany.about.com/education/botany/library/weekly/aa100399.htm
enlightening. He explains what has been going on in easily
understood language - at least I thought so. From the interview in
Part 2, it appears that most likely the names we know plants by would
remain essentially the same - even if the faction who wants to do
away with binomials wins - but the higher classifications would
change. Of course, the lumpers and splitters will fight over this
for some time, so I don't think we gardeners have to worry too much
about having to learn all new names right away.
That said, individual taxonomists are always working on various
genera and, like my beloved Cimicifuga (now Actaea) making changes
that are difficult to deal with on an every day level. Makes life
exciting when you go to try and find information on plants, tho'...
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Anelle Kloski <akloski@jps.net>
> Date: Sunday, March 12, 2000 5:33 PM
>
> I belong to the North American Truffling Society - which is
probably the
> most braggable organization I belong to, as I feel pretty special
for
> having once found a genuine truffle growing near my front door!
And in
> their latest newsletter, I found an interesting article about new
ideas
> about the classification of plants. Some botanists now think that
there
> are four plant groups, with animals being the fifth classification
of
> life on earth. The article says that one of the groups, fungi,
seems to
> be more related to animals than to plants! Naturally, I found this
> intriguing, and went to a webpage about this project:
>
> http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/DeepGreen/DeepGreen.html
>
> I read some of this, but I cant say I found that explanation about
the
> fungi yet. There are many papers to read on the subject. But it
does
> seem probable that there will be much more re-classification of
plants
> in the near future, so be prepared!
>
> Anelle
>
>
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