Hippeastrum and astronomy
Rick Buell via pbs (Sun, 14 May 2017 02:01:00 PDT)

Hi Jane--as my knowledge of Spanish is nearly non-existent, I'll rush in here and give my amateur hypothesis: I wonder if the 'knight's star' mentioned may refer to the 'star' in the throat of the flower, and not to an astronomic body? A wild guess on my part, but the name could simply be a case of 'poetic license'? (A horse might admire the 'star', but being toxic, that is all....??)

-Rick Buell
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On Sat, 5/13/17, Jane McGary <janemcgary@earthlink.net> wrote:

Subject: Re: [pbs] Hippeastrum and astronomy
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@mailman1.ibiblio.org>
Date: Saturday, May 13, 2017, 8:53 PM

On 5/13/2017 2:07 PM, penstemon wrote:

“star of the horse”? But apparently not much to do

No, it's said to be from hippeus
'horseman', not hippos 'horse'. On the
other hand, there is a word hippeios
'pertaining to horses'. I still
want the name of that star -- or was William
Herbert thinking of a
constellation? My
author admits nobody knows what Herbert was thinking of.

Jane
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