Thanks a lot for the quick response, Max. I had noticed *mukuroji* at NPGS / GRIN [ http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?33087 ] ... I did not quite understand what transcribed Japanese meant. Your informative response helped. Thanks and cheers !! - Dinesh
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Max Overton <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 31, 2008 7:45 PM > *To:* Indian Tree Pix <[email protected]> > *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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
