tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post2267672947376316525..comments2024-03-27T07:35:21.832-07:00Comments on Plants are the Strangest People: Fun With Plant Namesmr_subjunctivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-86320354620015042032019-08-12T04:29:16.452-07:002019-08-12T04:29:16.452-07:00P. bipinnatifidum is now Thaumatophyllum bipinnati...P. bipinnatifidum is now Thaumatophyllum bipinnatifidum. <br /><br />And the previous comment was right about your picture being of Thaumatophyllum xanadu.<br /><br />BanyanWandererhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11670269057329577541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-8565131812326418472016-07-20T18:13:03.443-07:002016-07-20T18:13:03.443-07:00I. Love. You. I. Love. You. Renratshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13583084640867134204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-15268599302967800822015-08-08T19:52:56.468-07:002015-08-08T19:52:56.468-07:00Oh, didn't see this link.
I'll go read it ...Oh, didn't see this link.<br />I'll go read it now. I was up and down that site looking for that information about obliqua and adansonii.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-1877479365842450882015-08-05T09:53:49.177-07:002015-08-05T09:53:49.177-07:00I have not read all of the responses soaybe this w...I have not read all of the responses soaybe this was covered.<br />On this website<br />https://www.hort.net/lists/aroid-l/feb02/msg00085.html<br />As well as expticrainforest.Com<br />Obliqua and adansonii are two different species.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-67098960837683803392010-01-21T07:55:02.703-08:002010-01-21T07:55:02.703-08:00Thank-you so much!Thank-you so much!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-88082259937364759392010-01-21T07:32:09.042-08:002010-01-21T07:32:09.042-08:00Anonymous:
Yes. You can.Anonymous:<br /><br />Yes. You can.mr_subjunctivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-59553712770300079362010-01-21T05:50:35.931-08:002010-01-21T05:50:35.931-08:00I have a rather odd question. I am getting all thi...I have a rather odd question. I am getting all this sun and it's been mild lately. Spring doesn't feel very far way and I want to capitalize on it. I cannot find my Miracle Gro but I have liquid cactus and African Violet fertilizer. Can I use these on my Pothos, Spider and Heart leaf Philodendron or other such house plants? My African Violets all died.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-38579015000312858232009-12-01T11:04:06.832-08:002009-12-01T11:04:06.832-08:00Thanks for your reply. Well most of the (marble Qu...Thanks for your reply. Well most of the (marble Queen)cuttings died. If you don't have luck with Pothos I won't beat myself up then.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-49149717453698470532009-12-01T06:04:49.028-08:002009-12-01T06:04:49.028-08:00I don't know. I don't particularly like &#...I don't know. I don't particularly like 'Marble Queen,' so I haven't messed with it very much. In my very limited personal experience with pothos, 'Neon' is the problem child, but singling one out as a problem gives the false impression that there are others that are easier, which for some reason pothos and I don't get along and never have, even though it seems to mr_subjunctivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-67089204365180037422009-12-01T00:00:11.244-08:002009-12-01T00:00:11.244-08:00Prey tell me. I got a nice Marble Queen Pothos and...Prey tell me. I got a nice Marble Queen Pothos and decided to trim it back to propogate several times over and normally this is quite easy. I can't tell you how many times I put a Golden Pothos in water and it thrived nicely. What is the deal with Marble Queen?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-89891199866990710852009-10-21T21:24:33.821-07:002009-10-21T21:24:33.821-07:00apparently wherever you are in the world, you get ...<i>apparently wherever you are in the world, you get a plant to call "jasmine,"</i><br /><br />Aha- like jynnan tonnix.daphnenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-9422061721497074732009-10-15T15:02:01.287-07:002009-10-15T15:02:01.287-07:00I mean, it's good to be genuinely prepared for...I mean, it's good to be <i>genuinely</i> prepared for pandas. The whole "lucky bamboo" thing is lulling thousands of people into a false sense of panda security.mr_subjunctivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-13327589255732845772009-10-15T15:01:14.869-07:002009-10-15T15:01:14.869-07:00Karen715:
That actually explains a lot. I keep ho...Karen715:<br /><br />That actually explains a lot. I keep hoping that someone from EA will happen across one of my rants about this (<a href="http://plantsarethestrangestpeople.blogspot.com/2009/09/fun-with-exotic-angel-tags.html" rel="nofollow">Fun With Exotic Angel Tags</a> would be the most obvious) and take it upon themselves to fix the tags situation, but I guess I shouldn't hold my mr_subjunctivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-18236846974128066612009-10-15T14:38:17.004-07:002009-10-15T14:38:17.004-07:00I have a mental block re: the whole pothos etc. ni...I have a mental block re: the whole pothos etc. nightmare. I carefully read your other post about the philodendrons and then promptly forgot it all. Luckily nobody who comes to my house knows about plants so I just make up stuff.<br /><br />The "lucky bamboo" thing drives me into a rage. Several people have proudly told me they have a bamboo plant on their desk. I want to tell them Dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12589473046882217457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-41394841735360343342009-10-15T10:34:41.300-07:002009-10-15T10:34:41.300-07:00Another tidbit about Exotic Angel. Several years a...Another tidbit about Exotic Angel. Several years ago when they introduced Carludovica 'Jungle Drum' to their line (and as far as I know, to the general houseplant trade) they did so without any botanical name at all. The tags just called it plain old "Jungle Drum". There were quite a few posts on Garden Web from people wondering what it was, and lots of guesses as to what genus Karen715https://www.blogger.com/profile/15979479537943300181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-22726586128994623562009-10-14T20:57:45.764-07:002009-10-14T20:57:45.764-07:00I miss my P. bipinnatifidium. Got too big and had ...I miss my P. bipinnatifidium. Got too big and had to go.<br /><br />In the world of hardy plants we'll get asked for "a snowball plant" - in spring they'll be talking about either a European Snowball (Viburnum) or Fragrant Snowball (Viburnum) and later they'll usually be talking about Hydrangea arborescens... I had one customer who recently was referring to a climbing Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347983770474369842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-57395943769424470182009-10-14T18:57:38.924-07:002009-10-14T18:57:38.924-07:00Wow! So all this time I thought I didn't care...Wow! So all this time I thought I didn't care for Philodendrons when it was actually the Epipremnums. It's not that they're a bad plant; I'm just mildly opposed to any plant that "everyone" has. There are too many awesome plants out there for Epipremnum to hoard everybodies' (everybodys'?) offices.<br /><br />I really appreciate your kindness and patience withTigerdawnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-64454513583036484642009-10-14T15:55:29.292-07:002009-10-14T15:55:29.292-07:00Of course as soon as I say I've only seen Mons...Of course as soon as I say I've only seen <i>Monstera adansonii</i> at work, I immediately see one at an Ace Hardware in Iowa City. <br /><br />(Also a very tiny <i>Zamia</i> NOID. And I bought what I hope is a <i>Pachycereus marginatus</i> at ex-work.)mr_subjunctivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-72983567220326049032009-10-14T13:55:29.148-07:002009-10-14T13:55:29.148-07:00I think I've usually used E. aureum, too, by m...I think I've usually used <i>E. aureum</i>, too, by much the same reasoning. Nice to know other people think along the same lines.<br /><br />I can't remember seeing any <i>M. adansonii</i>s in stores, either. Only the few we had at work, and they were gone before I realized how rare they were, and one in the school greenhouse.<br />So I gladly took the oppurtunity to take cuttings from Ivynettlenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-90187844853389032592009-10-14T11:33:27.874-07:002009-10-14T11:33:27.874-07:00Common names are a nightmare in this global age an...Common names are a nightmare in this global age and unfortunately a lot of retail centres make it even worse by just getting them wrong. Then the botanists (bless 'em) change the scientific names and hell - great post on a tricky problem.Hermeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00968366076064269729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-4601266823048234602009-10-14T10:11:31.669-07:002009-10-14T10:11:31.669-07:00It was your "Pothos v. Philodendron" pos...It was your "<i>Pothos</i> v. <i>Philodendron</i>" post that made me realize that my <i>E. aureum</i> "pothos" wasn't <i>Pothos</i>. I had assumed that "pothos" meant <i>Pothos</i> since I was, oh, seven years old or so? Why do people do this to us? It's like they want to make our brains smoke...Kenneth Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11619410362453458358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-23366012466197643452009-10-14T09:57:36.994-07:002009-10-14T09:57:36.994-07:00Ivynettle:
Yeah, I really have very little patien...Ivynettle:<br /><br />Yeah, I really have very little patience, normally, for people in the profession who can't distinguish <i>Epipremnum</i> and <i>Philodendron</i>. Look at a petiole, there's your answer. (Obviously, people not in the profession have less reason to notice or care, so I don't mind that as badly.)<br /><br />It's entirely possible that nobody actually <i>knows</imr_subjunctivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-54868153107165854242009-10-14T09:13:48.309-07:002009-10-14T09:13:48.309-07:00Somebody should write a book about all those vine-...Somebody should write a book about all those vine-y aroids. I mean, <i>I</i> find it easy to distinguish <i>Monstera/Philodendron/Epipremnum/Scindapsus</i>, but several of our apprentices have trouble with <i>Epipremnum aureum</i> and <i>Philodendron hederaceum</i>. And even I haven't been able to find a book that can tell me for sure whether <i>E. aureum</i> or <i>pinnatum</i> is the correctIvynettlenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-9711093827221829192009-10-14T07:44:35.287-07:002009-10-14T07:44:35.287-07:00Water Roots:
Couldn't tell you. Perhaps I sho...Water Roots:<br /><br />Couldn't tell you. Perhaps I should organize a customer feedback campaign about this? Set the PATSP hordes loose on them and watch them tremble? They <i>do</i> have a survey form on their website.<br /><br />CelticRose:<br /><br />Fixed. Thanks.<br /><br />Anonymous:<br /><br />True, on the leaf-margins, but I've never seen 'Xanadu' leaves that big, mr_subjunctivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-49526990725761494272009-10-14T06:03:32.861-07:002009-10-14T06:03:32.861-07:00Those common names, up to their old tricks!! I was...Those common names, up to their old tricks!! I was just experience confusion between "split leaf" and "swiss cheese" I was looking for photos for to make a line drawing and it was a mush of confusion! My mom had two huge bipinnatifidums, one of the things she didn't kill, they got too big for the house and she donated them to the lobby of the local nature sanctuary, it wasLzyjohttp://wormandflowers.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com