[pbs] Hippeastrum vs. Amaryllis and subject listings
C.J. Teevan
gardenstreet184 at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 30 20:50:16 EST 2007
Very Sorry, I was referring not to Amaryllis but to Hippeastrum. I assume responses to my recent q's were solving a problem with Hippeastrum, not Amaryllis. If not please let me know.
Mary Sue Ittner <msittner at mcn.org> wrote: Hi,
For the most part members of this group are good about using botanical
names when we discuss our bulbs. This is really helpful since we have
members from all over the world and using these names ensures that we are
all talking about the same thing. (Well at least it used to before the
taxonomists started changing the names faster than we can learn them.)
Using the scientific name also helps in searching our archives. Believe me,
posts to this list turn up regularly on Google searches. But we have an
ongoing problem when it comes to discussing Hippeastrum hybrids that people
often call Amaryllis. Since there is a genus Amaryllis, when someone asks
for help with Amaryllis, some people are going to assume that the bulb in
question was Amaryllis belladonna instead of Hippeastrum hybrids. It would
be helpful to use the word Hippeastrum, but it's always possible to note,
often sold as Amaryllis, or something like this to explain what you are
talking about.
Also I see we have picked up from Jim McKenney a new heading for our
discussion:
[SPAM] Re: Source of Eremurus spp.
People responded to his note and now that is the label for this subject in
the archives. Some of our members do a quick search of the subjects to
decide whether or not to read the message and if you saw this subject
heading, you might wonder if it was a response you wanted to read because
of the [Spam] preface.
Please change subject headings when you change the topic too so people who
scan the subjects won't miss something that they might want to read about
that is labeled under a subject that was being discussed but has now changed.
Many thanks.
Mary Sue
PBS list administrator
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