Attention Geeks: New Plant Family

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From Scientific American:

Floral Derangement (follow the link to read the entire article)

The new plant family is fittingly described in my kind of latin - porcine. :>
“Simulacraceae—away andbray ewnay antplay amilyfay omposedcay ofway objectsway ademay ybay umanshay (How you doing so far, uddybay?) otay ook­lay ikelay anyway eciesspay inway ethay ingdomkay Antaeplay orway ancifulfay eciesspay avinghay omponentscay ofway away ivinglay antplay (I always thought it was antwork and grasshopperplay) eciesspay orway away ombinationcay ofway omponentscay omfray everalsay ivinglay antplay eciesspay utbay otnay ookinglay exactlyway ikelay anway extantway antplay.”
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Bletter and his co-authors describe 17 different genera of phony flora that include 86 species, samples of which are currently stored at New York City’s Foundation for Artificial Knowledge and Ethnobotany (what’s a four-letter word for “counterfeit”?), which does double duty as a hall closet.
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With tongue planted firmly in cheek, the researcher was inspired thusly:
In his spare time, Bletter is a graduate student at the International Plant Science Center at the New York Botanical Garden. He notes that his intensive research on the Simulacraceae stemmed from SCADS—severe chronic avoidance of dissertation syndrome. “We are not sure if SCADS is genetic or environmentally transmitted,” he says, “but perhaps that’s the subject of our next huge NIH-funded project.”
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Who says these botany geeks lack a sense of humor? Share this article with your favorite hort department today. :bouquet2: (<----- complex polymers of long-chain hydrocarbons, indicative of their origins in the petrochemical industries.)
 
Sounds like a Horticulturalist Geekus that has run amok.

I'm not as fluent in hort speak as I should be so I was looking to improve that aspect when I clicked on this thread, got more than I bargained for, lol.
 
I've had excessive pollination today.......my genetic re-distribution is not yet complete today...I will attempt to to get to the root of this explanation, since I have NO IDEA what this is about:hammer:
 
I once used this.

A lady who used to work for me once asked me the name of something in a hanging basket. I had no clue what it was but I told her it was


'Dont Knowsia'

she then went right up to the customer and said it is a

'Dont Knowsia'

We had a laugh about it later.

Or then there is the favourite of those out for a Sunday drive who stop to pick the flora along the way.

'Roadsidia"
 
lollolLanguage! What a wonderful thing it is!

We use quite a bit of backyardsidia in our shop also. And I definitely had SCADS with one of my degrees.

You guys are a hoot.....a bunch of hoots!lol:iwuvyou:lol (where is that fallen-down-in-th-floor-laughing smiley??????)
 
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