Botanical latin- for the love of

[Xerxses]

Septentrionalis eg. Climacodon septentrionalis

 

Septentrional is a word that means "of the north" reffering to the seven stars...

 

Borealis is also a referense to the north.

[nepia]

You want colours?!

 

Latin Color Word List

[arb culture]

I was always told that the latin for puffball 'Lycoperdon' means wolf fart.

[alex_m]

sextus pinus erectus - six tall pine trees

 

seriously? no one find that slightly amusing?

[Xerxses]

seriously? no one find that slightly amusing?

 

Well..... It's derailing a really educational thread. This is really what this forum is about and not just another social forum. Maybe everyone that follow this thread didnt enjoy this thread to derailed?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Well..... It's derailing a really educational thread. This is really what this forum is about and not just another social forum. Maybe everyone that follow this thread didnt enjoy this thread to derailed?

 

nah, just didnt "rise to the occasion" lol

 

phalus impudicus is apt, and funny, though old and I thought "scrotiformis" meaning pouch shaped was a good reply?

[janey]

Getting back to the more, ahem, mundane names, I like auricula - little ear and ferox - fierce, which is very apt for the Holly cv. with that name

[Bundle 2]

Don't know much but believe that sepervirens is ever green!

Semper - always

Virens - green

 

We have come to this understanding of sempervirens.

If the latin is translated , it would be more accurate to say

semper-always

virens-living

hence-everliving: so "evergreen"

Just a bit of trivia.....

[Ian Flatters]

seriously? no one find that slightly amusing?

 

Im sure the latin writing should be Sextus erectus pinus? Just from when we did latin. My teacher said it was the rudes tree thing he'd found 'meaning six upright pines'?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

The Latin pleurotus (sideways) refers to the sideways-growth of the stem with respect to the cap while the Latin ostreatus (and the English common name, oyster) refers to the shape of the cap which resembles the bivalve of the same name.

 

Wiki pedia on the oyster fungus pleurotus ostreatus