Re: Common names


"La Puce" <helene@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Janet Baraclough wrote:
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> (snip)
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>> "Butterfly bush" is the common name that encompasses all
>> buddlieas..if you're in the UK. It's naturalised in the UK, and has a UK
>> common name.
>
> (snip)
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> You will also find that in other countries the common name is the same
> as the common names in the UK which means the exact description of the
> plant without naturally where it's from, where it grows etc which is
> more specified using latin. Butterfly bush will be in French 'arbre a
> papillons', meaning the same thing. There are some slight differences
> which are amusing, depending on the culture, for example a 'foxglove'
> would be in French and Spanish 'a woolf glove'.

Foxglove in German is "fingerhut" = finger hat.

Steve


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