Thursday's Trivia Quiz

Jasdip

9 years ago

Raise a glass! Today is National Pina Colada Day!!

The average one of THESE will travel 30,000 miles in its lifetime.
A: a grocery cart

Today's question is

Hopefully some of you are gardeners and know this one.

Lonicera is the Latin name for which garden plant?

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gazania_gw
9 years ago
Honeysuckle
jim_1 (Zone 5B)
9 years ago
Lonicera looks/sounds like an Italian word.
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susanjf_gw
9 years ago
boy would love to have a pina colada! but one sip and I'd be dizzy, lol...wonder how many miles I've pushed a shopping cart??

don't have a clue without cheating and looking up the plant, lol...
rob333 (zone 7b)
9 years ago
Can it be a passion fruit colada? That's my new love.

I almost always know latin names, and duh! for me on this one.
Fun2BHere
9 years ago
No clue.
rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
9 years ago
Jim-1, scientific nomenclature is often derived from other languages, especially Greek. But not all names are descriptive in their meaning.

The species name for one of the Lonicera is 'sempervirens', which means 'always green' in Latin. The Genus name is in honor of a sixteenth century German botanist named Adam Lonicer.

So, Lonicera sempervirens is the Latin nomenclature for the plant we commonly know as trumpet honeysuckle. :-) There are dozens, maybe hundreds of other species of Lonicera.

Lol, can you tell that I taught horticulture for years?
matti5
9 years ago
What rhizo said! (thank you rhizo!)
foggyj
9 years ago
Ditto that!

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