It proves all the time that people manage to "do" a Google search and find
nothing (see Semecarpus in other thread)

He had the species name spelled slightly wrong, as did numerous other people. I
was able to deduce the correct spelling, and found some information for him
under a botanical dermatology database. Sometimes I do this for people out of
curiosity. I was very curious about the walking palm tree, which is apparently
a bubbe meisse (old wives' tale).
Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)