Interesting! The Japanese name for Soapberry, Sapindus mukorossi is Mukuroji, and they have been using soapberry for over a thousand years. I'm not sure of the plant's distribution, but could a botanist have used a Japanese plant to describe it originally and adapted the local common name Mukuroji into the specific name mukorossi?
Then again, I could be way off the mark and it is only the 'recent' name in Japan, named after the specific name of the soapberry. I, too, could find nothing definite on the Internet. Cheers, Max Novels by Max and/or Ariana Overton (www.maxoverton.com) The Lion of Scythia Trilogy - EPPIE winners 2005 and 2006 The Glass House Trilogy (Eppie finalists), A Cry of Shadows, The Devil is in the Details, Trapdoor, Tapestry Scarab - Akhenaten (Book 1 of the Amarnan Kings), Scarab - Smenkhkare (Book 2 of the Amarnan Kings), Scarab - Tutankhamen (Book 3 of the Amarnan Kings), Rakshasa, Glass Continuum, Ascension Works in Progress: Scarab - Ay, and Scarab - Horemheb (Books 4 & 5 of the Amarnan Kings), Djinn From: Dinesh Valke Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 7:45 PM To: Indian Tree Pix Subject: [indiantreepix:6871] commemorative specific name: mukorossi Hello friends, Any idea whom is the epithet mukorossi commemorated to ? (most probably is some great foreign personality residing in India during the British regime) The internet did not help me !! Thanks and regards. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
