Re: Plant Names

On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 21:36:46 -0700, Barry Garcia
<Barry_Garcia@...> wrote:

>Tsoikon dalon meko - Quercus Agrifolia (Coast Live Oak) Means 'spiny
>leaved oak'.
We've got lots of live oaks around here in Texas, also. I guess from the
range and description it's probably the Virginia live oak (Quercus
virginiana), but I don't know much about trees. Tirelat for "oak" is
"xaxt".

>Nalon jabo - Lupinus nanus (Sky lupine) Means 'sky lupine'. It actually
>describes the plant well because the flowers are a sky blue color with a
>white spot on them.
The Texas bluebonnet is also a lupine (Lupinus texensis), with a deep =
blue
color; the Tirelat name "gulelhom" is a sort of multilingual play on =
words,
since "lupine" also means "wolf-like" in English and "gul" is the Tirelat
word for "wolf".

Tirelat also has words for two other local wildflowers: "fila" the =
evening
primrose (Oenothera speciosa), and "nafi" the Indian blanket or firewheel
(Gaillardia pulchella).

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