Subject: Re: [Homestead] The power of a seed--2,000 years old!
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 12:38:58 EDT
>From Gene's article:
> The Romans called it Phoenix dactylifera -- "the
> date-bearing phoenix" --
Maybe. But those Romans were borrowing the Greek word and they were calling
it a "finger-bearing phoenix" [as in the name of the dinosaur 'pteradactyl' =
'wing finger']. The Latin word for 'date' is 'plamula' .