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Nature
Bring in the
botanist
Botanist Stewart Ware of the College of William and Mary is an expert on Talinum and other native rock outcrop plants, and told us the story of its common name.
Fameflower is a literal translation of a rarely used genus name, Phemeranthus, established for the American species of Talinum. This name comes from ephemera + anthus, meaning shortlived flower (the initial “e” of “ephemera” was dropped when creating the name presumably because of a conflict with an existing name). Phemeranthus is not widely used by botanists, who continue to assign all of these species to the genus Talinum But because Talinum is not translatable, common names established for these species made use of a literal translation of phemeranthus (“phemera” translates as “fame” in Greek). Even
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