----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Lewis"

HOWEVER, too many plants have the same common name, or are called
one thing in New York and something else entirely in Florida (or
Bangkok ;-). There is only ONE plant with the name Wrightia
religiosa (note the small "r") so there is no possibility of
mixing it up. Some trees have no common name. This one appears
to be a tropical from Malaysia. Some call it "water jasmine" --
though it is NOT even closely related to the jasmines.

It IS, probably, a good idea to use the Latin (scientific -- not
all of the words are Latinized) name as well as a common name.

There are others, but I find the Hutchinson Dictionary of Plant
Names: Common and Botanical" to be a great help -- both in
identifying plants whose scientific names I don't know, and in
sorting out plants which have the same common names, but actually
are 5-6 different plants. "Ironwood" comes to mind.


You might also think of "Buttonwood". The New York Stock Exchange was
founded under a buttonwood growing in Manhattan. Most certainly NOT
conocarpus.

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