David Hershey schreef
No, the webpage is not really wrong on iapacho because it is used as a
common name. An internet search turns up several websites that use
iapacho:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...q=Iapacho+&btn
G=Google+Search

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I am afraid I do not understand your sense of humour. Do you really think it
is funny to suggest basing conclusions on a nose-count of websites?

The fact that websites often contain errors is hardly new. Sometimes they
even copy each other's errors.
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Lapacho is certainly a much more widely used common name but iapacho
is also used. Even if iapacho merely originated as a typo that used an
uppercase i for a lowercase L, it is still a common name because it is
in use. There are no accepted rules governing common names.

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Yes there are, and plenty of them. There is also something called "common
sense": quite a few of those websites use "Iapacho" and "lapacho" next to
one another, interchangeably. One of the others is riddled with typos.
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A person doing an internet search for iapacho will find it associated with
the scientific name Tabebuia ipe.

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Well such a person had better know to be critical as to what is found on
websites. By the way, Tabebuia ipe does not seem to be a current name.
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What other mistakes do you claim the webpage made? It is really unfair
and unscientific to issue a vague charge that a webpage contains
errors and then not list them.

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What has science got to do with it?
Perhaps you mean an artform, like the
Art-of-Filling-Up-Space-With-Senseless-Listings-of-Silly-Typos?
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The webpage cited on Naturally Rot-Resistant Woods was written for a
nonscientific audience so it cannot be held to a particularly high standard.
The author, Alex Wilson, seems to have some professional qualifications as
editor and publisher of the newsletter, Environmental Building News.

http://www.garden.org/articles/scrip...les.taf?id=977

David R. Hershey

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Surely that does not mean he cannot make silly mistakes
PvR

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"P van Rijckevorsel" wrote

- for the record: it is "lapacho" not "iapacho" (web site is wrong, not
David Hershey: this is not their only mistake either). The lapacho group is
one of several groups of woods yielded by the genus Tabebuia.

- also: as noted above: Ocotea rodi(a)ei has been Chlorocardium rodiei since
1991
PvR