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Why Latin names matter

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Hostafan1 said:
    I love to meet folk who know more about a subject than I do. I see it as an opportunity to learn from them, not to sneer at them.
    @Dovefromabove

    Devon.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    maybe just a WUM
    Devon.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Certainly very rude to people who are only trying to help.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2018
    I have always been very gracious to people on this forum until somebody thought they were putting me right, when even (this is the fourth time I have said it) The Royal Horticultural Society call it a thistle!

    This has been blown out of all proportion and reached the ranks of silliness now. Some of you getting so upset and throwing insults at me, it is ridiculous! You would have thought it was a personal affront to call an echinops a thistle!!!  


    I think you'll find that the RHS give its common name alongside it's correct botanical name ... that is widely accepted good practice ... it's very sad that you get so chippy when people are only trying to help. 
    You have conceded that there are times when its better to use the correct botanical name ... so why can we not tell you what that is without being accused of being elitist?

    I really think you're misreading people on this board. Perhaps you've been on other forums that are quite aggressive ... shame. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    WUM indeed.
    "There are none so blind as those who WILL not see"
    Devon.
  • ForTheBeesForTheBees Posts: 168
    There are also times when it's appropriate to refer to plants by the most lose colloquial term; "What's in a name? That which we call a Rosa Canina Dog Rose By any other name would smell as sweet"

    It's entirely scientifically and horticulturally accurate to refer to any plant within the Cardueae tribe as being 'a thistle'. However this clearly does not provide the same level of information as narrowing it down to specific genus, species or cultivars. 
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