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buzzy
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| Nothofagus = southern beech is another one that is a bit confusing. Apparently it should have been Notofagus but someone put a h in it. |
I wonder if that's true. Notho seems to come from nothus = false.
Noto seems to mean back as in Notonecta - Water Boatman or Backswimmer.
I can see the connection between 'false' and Nothofagus - a tree that looks like Beech but isn't. Can't see any back connection.
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Mistress Rose
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No. I must admit my Latin is non-existent, so perhaps what I read was incorrect. On the other hand 'back' could apply more to the fact they are found in the Southern Hemisphere as those in charge of names were all European. I must say that 'notho' does sound a bit odd as it is rather more like North. |
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lowri
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Garden plant names keep changing, even quite ordinary ones. My mother was furious when they changed Montbretia to Crocosmia.
Thank you, Buzzy, for the alternative names for Herb Bennett - much nicer ones (Bennett always reminded me of a great-aunt I didn't like). I hadn't read Pride & Prejudice at that age!  |
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dpack
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 18 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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good in salad is a fairly decent generic name.
the id needs to be very precise if you want the tribe to see morning, names are a good way to remember the id/use
latin names seem to work but the catalogue needs some tidying
the latin name is often good for a basic description but the local names are based on use (or look ) which is often easier to remember. |
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Mistress Rose
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That's true Dpack, but it would be a brave (or foolhardy) person these days that tried toothwort for toothache, or lungwort for a cough. They were named because of the 'doctrine of signatures' rather than any help they might give I suspect. |
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 18 9:11 am Post subject: |
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| lowri wrote: |
Garden plant names keep changing, even quite ordinary ones. My mother was furious when they changed Montbretia to Crocosmia.
Thank you, Buzzy, for the alternative names for Herb Bennett - much nicer ones (Bennett always reminded me of a great-aunt I didn't like). I hadn't read Pride & Prejudice at that age! |
It might help that Bennett derives from the Frenchified word Benoit, from the Latin Benedictus = Blessed - old French name for the plant Herbe Benoit = Blessed Herb.
There are ways of saying "Blessed Great Aunt" that alter the meaning. 
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Mistress Rose
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 and also interesting derivation. |
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buzzy
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 18 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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Today we went to a woodland reserve hoping to see Birdsnest Orchid ( a fail) and Early Purple Orchid (just about a success. We found a couple, expecting many more).
We also saw Guelder Rose (Viburnum opulus) - not rare but a lovely plant (in my view)
Crawling over logs in a recently cut area was a Wasp Beetle (Clytus arietis), a longhorn beetle described in my book as "a superb wasp mimic"
The beetle may be superb, but I think calling the mimicry superb is overstating the case.
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sean
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 18 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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Frankly I've seen small children in fancy dress who looked more like the object of their mimicry than that beetle does. |
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Mistress Rose
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| Posted: Tue May 22, 18 5:47 am Post subject: |
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I would have thought it was too early for birds nest orchid. I usually expect to see them after the bluebell foliage has died back. That is what makes them so hard to spot; brown flower on brown background. It may be that we haven't cut the right areas this year, but it doesn't seem quite such a good orchid year this year as some. We have a lot up a track called 'Orchid Hill', and they are particularly good this year, but other areas are rather disappointing. |
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buzzy
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| Posted: Sat May 26, 18 9:47 am Post subject: |
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We have had BNO in mid May, but usually in brown leaves. The area we searched on Monday had lots of greenery growing up, making the search much more difficult. We put it down to the oddness of the season.
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Mistress Rose
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 18 7:31 am Post subject: |
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I usually find them after the bluebells and wild garlic have died back, usually some time in June at the earliest, but that could be because they are hidden before that, as you say. |
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buzzy
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 18 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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After four Mondays with no outing (my usual lift givers were away or otherwise busy) I went out on Monday in the hot sun. We saw a few Black Hairstreaks which was a bit of a surprise, as we had been told that they were over. A couple of those that we saw were indeed very badly worn. We also saw several Silver Washed Fritillaries, and lots of Ringlets and Meadow Browns. All the butterflies we saw were extremely active and almost impossible to photograph. Plenty of Buzzards and Red Kites in the skies'
All I managed to photograph was this patch of eggs, which somebody happened to spot:
I have no real idea who laid them!
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dpack
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 18 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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a clutch and two "predators in waiting " ?
a couple of those look very different to most of em .
no idea what invertebrate laid em though |
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Mistress Rose
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 18 6:21 am Post subject: |
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Similarly, but very well spotted by someone. We have silver washed fritillaries flying, and saw some that are probably ringlets but wouldn't stay still long enough to be identified. Also speckled wood. The other brown ones could be meadow browns, but like the ringlets, wouldn't stay still. |
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