"La Puce" wrote in message
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shazzbat wrote:

Foxglove in German is "fingerhut" = finger hat.

How funny, considering how posonious it is! Antirrhinum latifolium,
Snapdragon is called 'gueule de loup' in French, meaning 'woolf's
face'. I wonder if there's a book with plants common names in Europe
and all their equivalent. That would be a treat for me )


Erhardt, W. et al. (editors).
Zander dictionary of plant names (GermanEnglishFrenchLatin)
pp.958, hardback, 2000. £42.20
Available from :
http://www.grantandcutler.com/catalo...r/TD2004_9.htm

Or
Elseviers Dictionary of Botany
QK 9 .E47
This dictionary consists of two volumes and lists
English-French-German-Latin-Russian entries. Volume I constitutes a listing of
names of plants, trees, shrubs, mushrooms and lichens in each language (over
6,000 entries). Volume II contains terms from closely related fields such as
agricultural chemistry, phytobiology, phytochemistry, horticulture, taxonomy,
and several others (almost 10,000 entries).
From: http://catnet.ksu.edu/subguides/hort/diction.html

And
http://www.rero.ch/page.php?section=...id=botani que
has a couple too :~))

Bonne Annee, Jenny