I've always wondered how the Botanists & Marine Scientists that work for our firm remember all of the tech terms for the reports they write. I know they must know all of the tech terms as it's often on the field notes I come across..
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08-20-2008, 09:29 PM #1
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08-20-2008, 09:36 PM #2
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When I did plant surveys, I'd learn the scientific name first then the common name. Sometimes I didn't know the common name.
When my mom and sister came to visit me in Montana, we did an overnight float with a commercial outfit. There were some other folks & my mom, of course, bragged how her daughter knew all the plant names. 'Cept all I knew were the geek names. Uh, that's, Tiarella trifoliata, uh, I think it might be called foamflower but I'm not really sure. The other folks on the trip were not impressed.
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09-01-2008, 04:26 PM #3
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How many different species/genus were those 80k plants? Probably not a huge variety, right?
I know that plants that I like to work with, both common and botanical names. The others that I don't use so much I can look up. I'd say that most landscape architects have a pretty good baseline of the names of the common plants they use.
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