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Thread #167530   Message #4042739
Posted By: Joe Offer
28-Mar-20 - 10:26 PM
Thread Name: botany, German: 'Die Schneewurz'
Subject: RE: botany, German: 'Die Schneewurz'
I went on a "Botanische Woche" hiking tour in Zermatt, Switzerland, in July 2015. It was wonderful. There were 6 Americans, 10 Swiss, and one physician from Berlin. The Americans took me along as their interpreter, but everybody spoke English very well. Our guide was 78 years old, and climbed those mountains like a mountain goat. He knew all the flowers we came across, but he and the Swiss participants preferred to use the Latin names of the flowers. I had to keep asking for the German names, because it's the common names that give the folklore behind the plant. Pinguilara vulgaris is known as "common butterwort" in English.
-Joe-