Re: Fallopia japonica 'Variegata' was japanese knotweed, thankslist :-)
- Subject: Re: Fallopia japonica 'Variegata' was japanese knotweed, thankslist :-)
- From: "Marge Talt" m*@hort.net
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 21:37:13 -0500
> From: Merri Morgan <mmorgan@wcgnet.net>
> At least the Fallopia, Polygonum, Persicaria names are
pronounceable. That
> brief period when the Sweet Autumn Clematis carried that
unpronounceable
> slavic moniker "max something" was really discouraging.
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maximowicziana - completely and totally unpronounceable - at least by
me; my brain simply refused to deal with it:-) One of those cases
where a common name almost has to be used as nobody would understand
anyone trying to actually say that word:-)
Maybe what we need to do is lobby our legislators to pass a law that
requires taxonomists to only name plants with names that can be
pronounced by normal human beings:-) They seem to delight in tongue
twisters.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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