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Old 26-04-2003, 01:27 PM
Iris Cohen
 
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Default Tylecodon experts?

For those of you who are not professional botanists, you may be interested to
know that Tylecodon is an anagram of Cotyledon, which is the genus it was split
off from. Botanists somtimes use this little trick when describing a new genus.
Iris,
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