PATSP is a long-winded, intermittently humorous blog which is mostly about houseplants, particularly Anthuriums and Schlumbergeras.
It kind of bugs me when people name non-red things "cherry" something. Not bothered a lot, but it does seem sort of exceptionally wrong.
I can't tell whether these pictures turned out well; I'm still getting used to having an LCD monitor. From some angles they look washed-out, and from other angles they don't. In either case, they do an admirable job of matching the blog's current color scheme, so there's that.
.jpg)
2.jpg)
Photos on this blog attributed to mr_subjunctive are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. All other photos retain the licensing preferences of their owners and require permission for reuse. Contact mr_subjunctive for help in locating the sources for other photos.
Text on this blog: all rights reserved. Text may not be duplicated by any means without permission of its author, who is actually pretty easygoing under most circumstances and will probably say okey-dokey if you ask to reproduce something (but you still have to ask, and credit mr_subjunctive as the author of the excerpted part).
Posts
5 comments:
Yeah, I am also annoyed when they use word blue in orchid names, they usually come out totally purple.
I have added some pictures from this weekend Montreal orchid show here if anybody wants to take a look. I was in "slippers mood".
Really, cherry red is the only way you can use cherry?
http://www.123rf.com/photo_9805286_yellow-cherries-on-a-branch.html
http://www.salondelvino.com/home-made-black-cherry-wine/
http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-images-white-cherries-image20557879
http://cherryhealey.com/
Pat:
Well, cherries themselves can be whatever color they like, obviously. But if you're trying to name something in a way that evokes its color, and you use "cherry," then either you need a modifier (as is often done with "black cherry") or it needs to be at least a little bit red, is my thinking.
Though I don't actually get final say on this, and in reality people use whatever words they feel like whether they make sense or not. If you've got a nameless lavender and turquoise flower, hey, name it "Cherry Sunset" if you want. I'm just saying it seems a bit misleading.
There is no clonal name so I'm guessing it's a seedling, the cross being named "Fuchs Cherry Chips". But there could be variation among seedlings - some more red, others not.
Ed Kramer:
Possible. Google's not turning up any images of any Fuchs Cherry Chips at all for me (including my own), so I can't confirm or reject the theory.
Post a Comment