What do you call it?

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  September 2022

  Woodgreen said:

  Veronica Beccabunga
  

  A spoilt brat from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
  
  

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• SYinUSA Posts: 243

  September 2022

  Long before I knew the Latin name (smilax) or even the common name (greenbrier), my sister called it Devil's Thorn and now so do I.

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• JennyJ Posts: 10,576

  September 2022

  Verbena bonariensis are called tufties in our family. My dad gave my sister a clematis cutting in a pot. The next year she said there was something growing in the pot but she didn't think it was clematis. When asked what it looked like she said it's tufty.
  

  Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  

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• NoSlugsPlease Posts: 120

  September 2022

  I find Latin/scientific names tricky. In my head, "Leucanthemum x superbum" is still "the super-bum".
  
  

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