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Specific Families and Genera => Amaryllidaceae => Topic started by: Graeme on April 08, 2015, 09:32:20 PM

Title: Ipheion - Tristagma
Post by: Graeme on April 08, 2015, 09:32:20 PM: Jessie - a real good blue

Charlotte Bishop - a not bad pink
Title: Re: Ipheion - Tristagma
Post by: David Nicholson on April 10, 2015, 06:19:34 PM: I haven't changed my labels Grahm but it's now Tristagma and presumably as that ends with 'a' its uniflora
Title: Re: Ipheion - Tristagma
Post by: fermi de Sousa on April 11, 2015, 08:16:24 AM: Quote from: David Nicholson on April 10, 2015, 06:19:34 PM
I haven't changed my labels Grahm but it's now Tristagma and presumably as that ends with 'a' its uniflora
No, "-ma" is also a neuter ending so the end stays the same on the specific,
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Ipheion - Tristagma
Post by: David Nicholson on April 11, 2015, 08:21:43 AM: As the late lamented Peter Cook, in his guise as E L Whistey, used to say "I would have like to have been a Judge, but I didn't have the Latin"

Thank you Fermius ;)
Title: Re: Ipheion - Tristagma
Post by: Graeme on April 11, 2015, 01:22:16 PM: Quote from: David Nicholson on April 10, 2015, 06:19:34 PM
I haven't changed my labels Grahm but it's now Tristagma and presumably as that ends with 'a' its uniflora
I will get them changed - I thought they had changed but was not sure what they were now called
Not noticed the spelling - copy and pasted the name from the internet to save me typing it and getting it wrong - oops
Title: Re: Ipheion - Tristagma
Post by: johnralphcarpenter on April 22, 2015, 03:52:04 PM: Tristagma Ex 'Alberto Castillo' from AGS seed two years ago.
Title: Re: Ipheion - Tristagma
Post by: Maggi Young on April 22, 2015, 05:26:44 PM: more plants we "should" ( ::) ) re label, eh?
Title: Re: Ipheion - Tristagma
Post by: Brian Ellis on April 22, 2015, 05:56:42 PM: Quote from: Maggi Young on April 22, 2015, 05:26:44 PM
more plants we "should" ( ::) ) re label, eh?

The trouble is Tristagma doesn't have the same ring to it as Ipheion does it? I like the sound of the names as much as the plants :D
Title: Re: Ipheion - Tristagma
Post by: Maggi Young on April 22, 2015, 06:59:13 PM: I know what you mean, Brian - something pleasing about Ipheion. Odd how we form these likes and dislikes, isn't it?
Title: Re: Ipheion - Tristagma
Post by: David Nicholson on April 22, 2015, 07:52:09 PM: It could be Ipheion again tomorrow for all we know, I shall not be changing my labels in any case.
Title: Re: Ipheion - Tristagma
Post by: Brian Ellis on April 23, 2015, 09:07:30 AM: Quote from: Maggi Young on April 22, 2015, 06:59:13 PM
I know what you mean, Brian - something pleasing about Ipheion. Odd how we form these likes and dislikes, isn't it?

Yep, I can't get my head round Dysosma either, to me they'll always be Podos.
Title: Re: Ipheion - Tristagma
Post by: fermi de Sousa on April 24, 2015, 06:32:40 AM: Quote from: David Nicholson on April 11, 2015, 08:21:43 AM
As the late lamented Peter Cook, in his guise as E L Whistey, used to say "I would have like to have been a Judge, but I didn't have the Latin"

Thank you Fermius ;)
All Greek to me, Davo!
;D

BTW, Brian, do you say I-fi-on or Iffy-on? ;)
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Ipheion - Tristagma
Post by: Brian Ellis on April 24, 2015, 08:48:54 AM: Quote from: fermides on April 24, 2015, 06:32:40 AM
BTW, Brian, do you say I-fi-on or Iffy-on? ;)
cheers
fermi

Well I say Iffy-on but as, for the first thirty years of my life I said halycon instead of halcyon, I wouldn't rely on anything I said ;D

In my defence the dictionary says
Quote
from Greek alkuōn ‘kingfisher’
where surely the k is a hard sound ;)
Title: Re: Ipheion - Tristagma
Post by: David Nicholson on April 24, 2015, 12:04:10 PM: Quote from: fermides on April 24, 2015, 06:32:40 AM
All Greek to me, Davo!
;D

;D ;D ;D