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"A Rose by Any Other Name."
« on: February 27, 2007, 09:07:55 PM »
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.
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Re: "A Rose by Any Other Name."
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2007, 09:31:54 PM »
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).

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Re: "A Rose by Any Other Name."
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2007, 11:30:13 PM »
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!
« Last Edit: February 27, 2007, 11:50:46 PM by Maggi Young »
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Re: "A Rose by Any Other Name."
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2007, 11:47:44 PM »
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.
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Re: "A Rose by Any Other Name."
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2007, 07:11:48 AM »
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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Re: "A Rose by Any Other Name."
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2007, 10:25:29 AM »
There could be a sub-plot to this story: the smallest plant with the longest name, complete with photo, preferably.
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Re: "A Rose by Any Other Name."
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2007, 12:52:15 PM »
Yes, we also grow Echinofossulocactus, the name runs nicely off the tongue.  Here's some more to throw into the daft name stakes:
Silybum marianum (my firewall setting at work deems this as "an inappropriate search term")
Happlopappus diplopappus

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Re: "A Rose by Any Other Name."
« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2007, 02:10:23 PM »
What we need now is the Errol Cosh clone of Echinofossulocactus, that could get a tongue rolling into a reef knot!

("Errol Cosh clone": see Tulipomania nouveau thread)
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Re: "A Rose by Any Other Name."
« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2007, 02:36:29 PM »
Ah, Maggie, that give me the opening to bring in Potentially Confusing Thread Titles.
Per will be delighted to know that he had me thinking for quite a while about Tulipomania nouveau but I did catch on before looking this genus up in the books :D
A second title was Crocus Crossing. I was disappointed to find that this did not relate to road traffic signs in Norwich and Neustadt!
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Re: "A Rose by Any Other Name."
« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2007, 02:53:49 PM »
A  rich vein of potential there, David! Thank you for not mentioning the Erectile Dysfunction thread of the Meconopsis page.  :-[
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Re: "A Rose by Any Other Name."
« Reply #10 on: February 28, 2007, 03:07:50 PM »
Yes David, I have to admit being i bit proud of the name of that thread ::)
I have a few suggestions for this thread in line with the Meconopsis, but will hold them for myself :D
Coming back to names, Kew have recently transfered among other genera Eremurus and Hemerocallis to the family Xanthorrhoeaceae!!

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Re: "A Rose by Any Other Name."
« Reply #11 on: February 28, 2007, 05:09:58 PM »
I've always had a soft spot for Tchihatchewia, pronounced to provoke the response "Bless you!"
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Re: "A Rose by Any Other Name."
« Reply #12 on: February 28, 2007, 05:19:31 PM »
Maggie, there are limits to where even I will go ;D
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Re: "A Rose by Any Other Name."
« Reply #13 on: February 28, 2007, 08:34:32 PM »
A great thread Lesley, that I just can't resist. A favourite of mine is Catalpa bignonioides, but no picture sadly. ... :(..

So I'll just have to submit the Silversword from the Hawaiian Island of Haleakala: Argyroxiphium sandwichense..    just try saying it... :D...
And attached, see pic, courtesy of a fellow geologist friend of mine who hiked across the island a few years ago. Sadly, I have not managed to get myself a visit yet....

I am reminded that the BD and his good lady showed a sizeable non-flowering rosette a few years ago. Ian/Maggi, did you manage to flower it??
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Re: "A Rose by Any Other Name."
« Reply #14 on: February 28, 2007, 08:51:45 PM »
We flowered some. Dave. One whopper went to Secret Squirrel the Glenrothes Greenfinger for its retirement.. I think it flowered, too. No good seedfrom them sadly. They are monocarpic.
It is, in my opinion, the most silvery of silver plants. Very beautiful and a pleasure to have grown and shown it.
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