can anyone tell me the latin name for ...

[Husqvarna King]

HAHA I still remember my first college ident - Rhubus cockburnianus....had me in fits!!!!

[Dean Lofthouse]

HAHA I still remember my first college ident - Rhubus cockburnianus....had me in fits!!!!

 

I think you've found a referencing system that might work Husqvarna.

 

Even I would easily remember that one

[Husqvarna King]

I think you've found a referencing system that might work Husqvarna.

 

Even I would easily remember that one

i cant remember the bloody common name now though!!!! anyone??

[bob]

For example - Say Prunus avium is recoded to PH5N1 (incidentally try telling your client that's what its called!)

Whereas if I type Pruns avum you'll be fine.

 

Thats what you think tell him its a big tree or a small tree and he might manage

[Husqvarna King]

Rubus cockburnianus = Whitewash Bramble i think!!???

[josharb87]

There you go you see what a nightmare I'm having!!

 

most words can be traced back to latin or greek, as they both were one of the original languages in the old old old days.

whats important is that as professionals we know that there is room for both common and latin names-you dont want to alienate customers by always using latin - they lust want that big oaky type tree cutting, if you turn round and say i recommend a 20%crown reduction, crown clean, and raise on your Quercus robur, many will say

'WTF?!? can you tell me that in english please? oh you mean a short back and sides'

but on a professional level, using latin-where relevant can prevent confusion, as your being more specific.

in reply to your previous posts dean, re making things simpler to understand, common names are a new simpler way of catogrising trees-instead of the Quercus taxonomic genus, we have Oak family, instead of ilex as the taxonomic species, we have holly, holme or evergreen oak - but thats 3 names for one tree! ARRRHGGGHHH a 3rd way of clasification would be even more confusing!

just tag every tree

[Dean Lofthouse]

The easiest way of explaining what I mean is, renaming or shortening can be easier and once it's got used to everybody will understand like this:

 

CO2

O2

H2O

H

Cu

 

Most of us, with no training can recognise the above, all I am saying is there could be a "periodic table" for trees.

 

Tony mentioned typo mistakes on shortened words could be catastrophic? No more catostrophic than what could happen with metals and chemicals and it doesn't happen often.

 

I know I'm not the best at explaining myself but the periodic table is the closest example to what I mean. The common ones will be identifiable to anyone without reference but will need to look up more complex stuff

[Peter]

Unfortunatly the periodic table contains 117 elements whereas the Linneal binomial system covers hundreds of thousands of plants and animals. You would swiftly run out of abbrieviations.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Just using the alphabet in combinations of five ie:

 

aaaaa

aaaab

aaaac

 

would give you nearly 12 million combinations

[Peter]

And remembering 12 million random combinations of five letters is supposed to be easier than botanical names?

 

I'm starting to think that this whole thread is one big wind up.