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Growing Thistels from seeds
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writes In article , Kay Easton writes Quite a few. You might remember more than one discussion in urg about 'collards' But wasn't that more about what plants popular names applied to? - a well known source of confusion, and nothing to do with taxonomy as such Do you have the Latin name for collards? I don't know which plant you mean by collards, any more than I know which plant you would mean by 'gillyflower'. No amount of looking at DNA and revisiting current classification is going to clear up the common names of plants, which are applied without great regard to their underlying relationships - lesser and greater celandine, for example! Are you saying that there are plants within the brassicas which should not be? Or conversely, that plants not at present considered to be brassicas which you believe to be brassicas? Or are you making a plea for common names to be more nearly aligned with botanical classification? Any new classification should hopefully clarify all of those points. I think it should throw more light on how accurately existing classifications mirror evolutionary history, but I can't see that it can help in any way with common names. But what I was asking you is are you aware of any greater taxonomic confusion among the brassicas than among other plants (other, of course, than the problem of common names which have never attempted to mirror taxonomy and which may be used by different parts of the country to refer to different plants) -- Kay Easton Edward's earthworm page: http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/garden/ |
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