Snowdrop names

[Alan_b]

Just looking at the K's you could have Dryads: Karya, Klaia, Kraneia & Kyllene.  Only Khelone seems to have been used up as a plant species (in the spelling Chelone).

[annew]

She is Greek, but unfortunately I subsequently found that name is already taken for a genera of plants.

Rats!

[Brian Ellis]

She is Greek, but unfortunately I subsequently found that name is already taken for a genera of plants.

Couldn't Anne have something like Galanthus 'Gaia's baby'?

[Matt T]

Couldn't Anne have something like Galanthus 'Gaia's baby'?

I'm not sure, Anne would have to check the rules in the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants. 'Chione' has been used as a Genus name, but 'Gaia' is apparently available.

[annew]

There's a list of registered snowdrop names here:
http://www.kavb.nl/zoekresultaten
Interesting that they have 'Abington Green - I thought it was Abingdon.

[Matt T]

How about running a competition to name a snowdrop?    'Snowy McSnowface' has a good ring to it 

[annew]

I think that one would be a certainty! 

[Maggi Young]

How about running a competition to name a snowdrop?    'Snowy McSnowface' has a good ring to it 

I'll put in an order now for one dozen 'Snowy McSnowFace' - worth any money to see the faces of the 'drop snobs!

[Alan_b]

Interesting that they have 'Abington Green - I thought it was Abingdon.

I don't know which is correct but the villages of Great and Little Abington are a few miles away from me, south of Cambridge.  The Reverend Blakeway-Philips held a role there (curate of Little Abington?).  Statistically I would say that boosts the chances of it being Abington above Abingdon.

By-the-by, the village of Babraham is a mile of two to the North of the Abingtons, hence (I presume) 'Babraham Scented', 'Babraham Dwarf', maybe others.  I've sometimes seen that name wrongly represented as Babraham's but Babraham is a village and not a person. 

[Brian Ellis]

I don't know which is correct but the villages of Great and Little Abington are a few miles away from me, south of Cambridge.  The Reverend Blakeway-Philips held a role there (curate of Little Abington?).  Statistically I would say that boosts the chances of it being Abington above Abingdon.

By-the-by, the village of Babraham is a mile of two to the North of the Abingtons, hence (I presume) 'Babraham Scented', 'Babraham Dwarf', maybe others.  I've sometimes seen that name wrongly represented as Babraham's but Babraham is a village and not a person.

Yes Matt has it as 'Abington Green' in the book, and, as you say it came from Little Abington where Rev takeway Philips was.

[mark smyth]

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[johnralphcarpenter]

Yes Matt has it as 'Abington Green' in the book, and, as you say it came from Little Abington where Rev takeway Philips was.

Not a Chinese takeaway,then.

[David Nicholson]

 

[annew]

  I'll change my labels then!

[annew]

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