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Bill
Good read on power of naming plants and animals
Aug 11, 2009
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Thanks Bill. Good read. I try to identify my weeds, before I pull them up. Some of them (Dead Nettle, Sow Thistle, Urtica urens, Epilobium parviflorum) are now encouraged in my garden.
What blew me away was the mention of some 4 year olds that can name and identify 100 different plants in South America . Reminds me of old info I read years ago about how many different types of snow Eskimo name.
Make me feel very ignorant a good thing.
Bill
Or names for green in Japan, names for camels in Arabic, or names of coffee in Italy.
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