"Bob Hobden" wrote
"AL_n" wrote ..
PS, I'd love to know the correct pronunciation of Houttuynia!


From my Dictionary of Plant Names it's... Hoo-tie-nee-a ... after
Martin Houttuyn a Dutch Naturalist.

I have no idea how it's properly pronounced but I always think of it as
'the Hootenanny Plant' which is as good a misnomer as any since
hootenanny, before it came to mean a folk music gathering, was
apparently an old word meaning something along the lines of 'wossname'
or 'thingmajig' and used when the proper name had been forgotten.

--
Sue