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  • FlinsterFlinster Posts: 883
    Ammi majus is short ... in name I mean!
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited May 2018
    Acer is nice and short. Is it me, or do names like Gregii or Burkwoodii sound a bit daft?
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    Flinster said:
    Ammi majus is short ... in name I mean!
    Yes, you'd be pushed to beat that for shortness ...
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited May 2018
    Zea! That's the shortest I can think of.

    Olea
    Rosa



  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I hear 'par-zly' occasionally, which shocks me every time.
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    Guernsey Donkey2 said:
    I am no good with Latin names as many of you will have realized but I too called cottoneaster cotton easter at first - oh dear!
    You mean it's not cotton Easter?!  Oh dear indeed.. I've got to go look up how it's actually pronounced now.  Ahh.. 
    Utah, USA.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    cot-own-ee-aster
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    Co-tone-easter?  Ko-tony-aster?
    Utah, USA.
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cotoneaster

    Click on the speaker button next to the word.
    Utah, USA.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Wonder if there’s an English version of that, pronunciation differs greatly from UK to USA.  
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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