Just because you wrote a book on the subject, doesn't make it your claim to fame. While Ed Eby may not have written any books on the subject, they are the true founders of sansevieria as for collecting them. You can look up so many of the Koko, EB, Alva, and so many codes that were in existence before Grigsby or Hermione came upon this. Hermione has never collected much of the plant materials that she gives herself credit for. Many of these plants were in the hands of these collectors well before Hermione ever knew about them. I think the rest of you need to bush up on your history lessons as you don't really have facts, just CONCLUSIONS from what you have read. Juan Chahinian is the first person who actively grouped, and collected the laurentii group and documented this. Before this it was just word of mouth of what was what. You don't see any Grigsby's codes or numbers in any of these collectors, because they originated from Hawai'i and codes and numbers changed after coming into the hands of other collectors. Ed Eby had the largest collection of sansevierias amassed into one collection. His plants originated from Africa and before that, not in any collection worldwide. Just because something has been named, documented and labeled doesn't automatically make them being grown in botanical gardens. Back then you had to be a rare flower or some rare plant to be named after for a botanic garden to house it in its limited space conservatory. Get your facts straight, not everything was in botanic gardens even back when it was described. get real!

We'd have to look at the way the category was described by Alex or the way its title was written. One or the other should have indicated that the answers were two words that were reverse spelling of each other, because a regular palindrome is as you described it - one word that is spelled the same backward as forward.

I think it's sweet and love hearing it. I've also heard and been called daughter. I find it personal rather than impersonal. I'm the only one in the room my mom is going to call daughter. Although, at almost 43, my mom mostly refers to me as "The kid". She'll say "give it to the kid" or @here you go daughter". The little hairs on my neck rise if my parents or DH use my name. I feel like I'm in trouble or something. She used to call my brother "Sonny boy". Not sure what she calls him now. His name is Terry, I think it's just Ter. My dadnames few names for me over the years. Nut I'm mostly Dan or Suge (sugar). My grandparents are responsible for "Dani Honey".

Hilary: Thanks for the great idea! I plan to use it, poem and all. To whom do I give credit for the poem? Did you compose it? I'd like to put a name to the poem. p.s. My 4 year old is really into "measuring." He always wants to measure his height, feet, hands, etc. against ours. Last evening he wanted to compare his hand-size to his dad's hand. Needless to say, I took the opportunity to record it on paper. My husband even suggested I place a cut-out of our son's hand in his and make it into a scapbook page! Now when he sees it, he's going to want to take credit for your idea! HA! Thanks again for all the great ideas!!!! karen