Potted perennials
Persephone wrote in message
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Just a personal opinion -- but -- I find the term "wandering jew" so
distasteful, that I prefer to use the botanical name. At a nursery
I would ask for the plant by its botanical name.
Googling "Wandering Jew" yields:
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Common name: "Zebrina Wandering Jew"
Latin name: Tradescantia zebrina - synonym Zebrina pendula
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Note that the Latin name says nothing about Jews.
The meaning is "trailing" or "hanging".
One has to wonder how this unfortunate nomenclature arose.
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Persephone
One has to wonder how unfortunate we are that people like you were not
aborted before birth.
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