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"A Rose by Any Other Name."
Lesley Cox:
While looking among the E's in the RHS Dictionary I came across a fabulous plant name - Echinofossulocactus coptonogonos. I've always had a fondness for crazy words like that, and invite Forumists to contribute their own favourites. My late mother always made a point of mentioning Metasequoia glyptostroboides to garden visitors and I'm sure there are other out there worth a mention.
This thread will certainly be among the top 10 of "Silly Subjects" which Maggi will judge at the end of the year.
Heather Smith:
Lovely. Name that plant while giving a talk to a local gardening society and they will look at you in awe! (always assuming you can remember it yourself).
Maggi Young:
I prefer the old name, Orphanidisea gaultherioides to the new name of Epigaea, and I adore the plant, too.
I like to mention Roscoeas on account of their family, Zingiberaceae ! Fab!
Anthony Darby:
A name that will always stick in my memory is Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus (a type of moss), only because I had come closest to spelling it correctly in a field report my undergraduate class had to write up.
PEAK:
This is a nice new topic Lesley, I have to admit that I actually grow that Echinofossulocactus. A bid sadly the whole genus has now returned to the old name Stenocactus, a name less interesting.
Staying with cacti one of my favourites are Austrocephalocereus dolichospermaticus :D
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