On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Mary Sue Ittner <msittner@mcn.org> wrote: > It used to be > that you could argue that using botanical names > assured that you were all talking about the same > thing. Now the common names last longer in many cases. > > Mary Sue > > This really made me smile! I never thought of it that way before, but you're absolutely right. I've been a hard core Gesneriad grower for about a year now, and I have seen this happening in that Family. Like when commonly grown wild-collected plants finally get designated as a species... the common name continues to persist. Dennis in Cincinnati