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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    When I went to work in a garden centre, straight form school, I read it as cotton easter. I'm so glad I heard someone else pronounce it before I said it out loud. 
    I also remember being asked about "Liquid Amber" and looking it up in the "common names" section. 
    We all live and learn.
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Just wait till you have French gardeners sprouting common and botanical names at you!


    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190
    I have always wondered how to pronounce Eschscholzia!
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Kalanchoe, anyone?
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    edited May 2018
    https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/clematis
    I've always said it like this.
    Putting the em-PHA-sis on the wrong syll-A-ble gets on my wick!  :D 
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    The hopeful herpetologist said:
    Kotoni Aster
    Having dug out three very mature specimens of horizontalis, my ex took to calling them kotoni b*****ds!!!!
  • ThankthecatThankthecat Posts: 421
    edited May 2018
    Yep, my OH calls it the b****** bush. 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Then there's people called 0-NI-ons.
    I think clemAtis sounds horrible so I don't say it. 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    So how would you pronounce Thuja - hard J, soft J, long A, short A? And who decides!
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