Ambiquous Common name nomination
Hannon (Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:55:24 PST)
As some wise person observed once:
All common names are correct!
(By virtue of the absence of any agreed upon authority...)
On Dec 20, 2007 2:33 PM, Mary Sue Ittner <msittner@mcn.org> wrote:
My nomination is Bermuda Buttercup, the name used for Oxalis pes-caprae
which is native to South Africa, not Bermuda. It is yellow it is true, but
buttercup is a common name often used in connection with some Ranunculus
species which further illustrates one of the problems of using common
names
as more than one genus can go under the same name.
Mary Sue
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