ENDEMISMO GOES LATIN

ONE OF THOSE ways to use time unwisely is defining and debating silly, meaningless issues. For example Hispanic or Latin? As when referring to those characters
living in USA, speaking or not English. Since people who speak Spanish are not Latin, the
term I would prefer to use in my known humble perspective is HISPANIC, but I solved the little problem coining ANGLOSPANO. Those with Spanish surnames unable to speak, write, understand Spanish coherently or jeringonza.

Moving to our constant subject, Horticulture, here a list of Latin terms used in botanical nomenclature is provided. They were found in an old catalogue, www.eonseed.com. It is a simple kind without pictures, black and white with a relatively good list of seeds, mostly herbs and other edibles.

1. alatus = appearing winged
2. angustiflolius = narrow leaves
3. barbatus = bearded
4. canadensis = from the North
5. caerulea = blue
6. chinensis = from China
7. communis = common
8. glomoratus = clustered together
9. hirtus or hirsutus = hairy
10. incarnatus = flesh colored
11. japonica = from Japan
12. latifolius = broad leafed
13. lutea = yellow
14. macranthus = growing by the sea
15. mollis = soft
16. nanas = dwarf
17. nudiflorus = flowers before the leaves come
18. paniculatus = having flowers in a cluster
19. praetensis = of meadows, growing in a meadow
    
20. papyfera = paper like
21. pictum = painted
22. procumbens = flat on the ground
23. reptans, repens = creeping or spreading
24. rotundifolia = round leaved
25. rugosus = wrinkled
26. sativum = cultivated
27. semperflorens = ever blooming
28. sinensis = from China
29. tomentous = densely wolly
30. vulgaris = ordinary, common

Well that is that, half of it. As a present to our fans, particularly the #1, in Puertoruido. To the rest of you, keep planting, researching, blogging with some sort of signature. There is no point in having a blog to disperse information copied verbatim from government agencies, as it seems to be the rule in some island forums.. Juat is the point?