Monday, May 11, 2009

Why do some lovely flowers have terrible names?

"Scabiosa" and "Fetid Adder's tongue" come to mind, any others?

Why do some lovely flowers have terrible names?
Well, some are based on the scientific names, Latin, and some are based on how they were discovered and what uses they had at the time. I think most of them are because words and their meanings have changed so much since the time they were discovering them. I'm pretty sure "wort" isn't the same as "wart"! And there are a lot of "tongue"s: deertongue, beardtongue...= )


Oh, you know what's a good one? "Broomrape"s! That one's kinda cool because they actually were found as a semi-parasitic plant on the roots of the plant they used for brooms. There is actually a specific species called "Naked Broomrape"!
Reply:no sory cant think.
Reply:In England there are big fields of yellow flowers that you see from the train window. They're called 'rape'.

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