Learning scientific names

[jack]

Got any curly scientific names for us to try to translate, Jack?

stevent's tropical plant name story inspired me: Gamba grass Andropogon gayanus

 

[Renenet]

As far as we know it has no meaning and was made up by the author because he thought it sounded good. Thus me saying I was being nasty.

:evil:

stevent's tropical plant name story inspired me: Gamba grass Andropogon gayanus

At first glance...

Anyway, there's a few in your signature now, too, Jack.

Okay, Andro is male or stamen. Not quite sure about the pogon part. It does remind me of of the "gon" in polygon, et cetera - not sure if that has anything to do with it. Gayanus - well, if people started talking about the gayanus grass rather than the Gamba grass, I think there'd be a lot more interest generated. I'm not sure what that means either. It could be based on a name - Gayan, for example - but trying to look it up is fraught with risk.