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Ponderable Plant Names

A list of 275 words by hernesheir.

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List of plant names (common or scientific) that go trippingly off the tongue, are fun to contemplate, expose the wit of the namer, or just plain befuddle.

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  • gangerh commented on the list ponderable-plant-names

    A delightful list, h'heir.

    September 17, 2009

  • hernesheir commented on the list ponderable-plant-names

    Thanks, gangerh.

    September 17, 2009

  • reesetee commented on the list ponderable-plant-names

    Great list!

    September 17, 2009

  • john commented on the list ponderable-plant-names

    Totally loving this list as well, thanks hernesheir.

    When you're done, or donish, would you mind bulk tagging these whatever you think is appropriate? Maybe 'plants', or 'flora', or both?

    September 18, 2009

  • hernesheir commented on the list ponderable-plant-names

    Yes, John - will bulk tag the terms with some appropriate catch-words. Thanks for the reminder!

    September 18, 2009

  • hernesheir commented on the list ponderable-plant-names

    Many of the names seem too fanciful to believe, which is why they ended up on this list. All names to date (9/17/2009) are recorded in Richard P. Wunderlin's Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida, University Press of Florida. 1998. 806 pp. This book is the standard taxonomic treatment for the state of Florida.

    Many of the words herein are mashups of two words, or otherwise hyphenated words. For the most part, I've preserved the spelling (sans spaces or hyphens between two or more words) that was recorded in the source, and thus am preserving that author's conventions or editorial choices.

    September 18, 2009

  • gangerh commented on the list ponderable-plant-names

    Dick Wunderlin? That explains everything! :-)

    September 18, 2009

  • hernesheir commented on the list ponderable-plant-names

    Great observation in the preceding comment gangerh! Or perhaps words that made it onto the list reflect my own predilections? Dang, now I have to ponder myself again.

    September 18, 2009

  • madmouth commented on the list ponderable-plant-names

    I found Jamaican navel spurge at the neat sea-bean website you linked to.

    September 20, 2009

  • madmouth commented on the list ponderable-plant-names

    also, this is the best list in recent memory! hours of delight

    September 21, 2009

  • hernesheir commented on the list ponderable-plant-names

    Thanks, madmouth!

    September 21, 2009

  • hernesheir commented on the list ponderable-plant-names

    I don't think it Damrongia at all to include Damnacanthus, Damnamenia and Damnxanthodium to this list.

    June 21, 2010

  • hernesheir commented on the list ponderable-plant-names

    The grass genus Diarrhena probably belongs on this list too.

    June 21, 2010

  • bilby commented on the list ponderable-plant-names

    Diarrhena, shittah and sewervine all on the same page.

    June 21, 2010

  • hernesheir commented on the list ponderable-plant-names

    This gardening article from the Sunday Times (London) is titled "Get kids into gardens with snotty gogs, stinking willy and bum-pipe".

    June 24, 2010

  • hernesheir commented on the list ponderable-plant-names

    Sacha Langton-Gilks’s Red Undies and Dutchman’s Trousers: Naughty Plants for Every Occasion is published by Collins.

    June 24, 2010

  • JennyTWH commented on the list ponderable-plant-names

    This has truly made my day! Thank you herneshair.

    March 29, 2012

  • linhao commented on the list ponderable-plant-names

    it's wonderful to contemplate on these lovely names.

    May 3, 2012