In my salad days, I had a well going snail-mail correspondence with one esteemed botanist. We discussed several issues of plant taxonomy and I gained a lot from this relationship. Until the day, when my pen pal wrote me, "This villain is calling this plant Polygonum lapathifolium instead of - what is correct - Bistorta lapathifolia." I sat down, and without thinking about consequences, I wrote back, "Dear Prof. ..., in my humble opinion, I think that the plants don't care, how they are called." I never heard from him again.
Do you think that the plants care? Adolf Ceska, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Zone 8+1/2
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