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Talk:Orobanche

message: The paragraph about use by witches is problematical.  Firstly, witches were definitely not druids. Secondly, it's well documented that the name broomrape is nothing to do with sexual penetration - rather, it's from the Latin rapum genistae, which translates as "a lump on a broom (Genista) bush".   On the other hand, the application of alkaloid-containing plant material such as mandrake to the mucous membranes of the vagina does have the ring of truth.  It's known that 16th century British witches applied such herbal compounds externally so that they were absorbed through the skin to give hallucinations of flying; the alkaloids would be absorbed even more effectively if applied in the way suggested here.
: Thanks for explaining why it's called broomrape; the name is unfortunate, to say the least. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 22:37, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

message: Phelipanche appears to be a preferred name for certain Orobanche species. I think there should be a page for Phelipanche and also mention of this on this page. Petermr (talk) 16:52, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orobanche and Phelipanche
Talk:Myoporum laetum

message: I believe the Order should be Scrophulariales not Lamiales currently in the scientific classification.  Could anyone who is authoritive on such add any comment? TJHogan (talk) 23:19, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: On some of these obscure species its hard to get an answer on a question sometimes.  Ive posted on talk pages months ago which haven't been replied to.  If you feel like the relevant sources indicate classification within Scrophulariales then go ahead and change it and if someone disagrees they can revert you and then both of you can compare sources on this page to determine the best classification.  I don't really understand all the justifications behind plant taxoboxes, an editor wrote on my talk page "most of our taxoboxes jumble Cronquist higher taxonomy and APG lower taxonomy" and you might end up on the losing end of that jumble but go ahead and 'be bold', work from verifiable material, and it will work itself out.  Mmcknight4 (talk) 05:47, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Taxobox and classification updated. Order Lamiales; Family Scrophulariaceae.  Gderrin (talk) 07:06, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scientific Classification question on Order 

message: Hello @ and  The reference in Hort. does use the capital. The article Hort. does not however. Obviously we should prefer the source's version without an other authority. Invasive Spices (talk) 22 November 2022 (UTC)
:, I looked at the capitalization of incoming links to Hort. before I made any changes. A slight majority had it lower-case, so I made edits to standardize to lower-case; if the majority had it capitalized I would have standardized that way. Hort. isn't a person's name, so it doesn't necessarily need to be capitalized. And it's optional to cite any authority appearing before an "ex.", and this article now follows POWO in attributing M. crystallinum solely to Kunze. Plantdrew (talk) 16:36, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hort
Talk:Nancy Zieman

message: Does anyone know if Nancy Zieman suffered from an injury or stroke?  I have clicked on to her show a few times, and always wondered.  Kemet 18:28, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: you're not the only person who has wondered.  Her facebook photo makes it appear she does suffer from some kind of muscular damage in her face.  I'll see what I can find out.LiPollis (talk) 15:09, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Facial injury?

message: How 'bout a photo of her?
Think that would be better than a pic of her store since this entry/article is ABOUT HER.  If it were about her store/business, then the store pic would be extremely apropos.
Just a thought. 2600:8800:786:A300:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D (talk) 21:28, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo
Talk:Mimulus

message: Learning about editing for a class, so I'm sure I'll make mistakes. I found the article very useful, though noted and requested citations for a number of lines.
--PeteLambert (talk) 04:56, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Learning

message: I'm not sure if I want to actually edit things that much when the edits are regarding taxonomic matters but it seems to me this may be incorrect and inconsistent with itself and with other related Wikipedia pages. Mimulus guttatus appears to be one of the many species which, as mentioned in this page, has been reclassified as forming part of a different genus: specifically it has been placed in Erythranthe as Erythranthe guttata. It seems incorrect to list it in this section (particularly when the heading takes pains to indicate that it is a sensu stricto listing). Indeed, the link to Mimulus guttatus actually redirects to the Erythranthe guttata page which also refers to the reclassification (so an inconsistency exists between the descriptions in the two pages: the Mimulus page and the Erythranthe guttata page). While I do understand that many are unhappy with this reclassification (see http://10.1126/science.365.6456.854), making the category be sensu stricto would seem to force it.
Cosmicaug (talk) 03:07, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: ''[[Mimulus guttatus]]'' in the ‘Species of Mimulus sensu stricto’ category
Talk:Euphrasia

message: Seems incorrect, as it was mentioned by Hildegard of Bingen.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.68.94.86 (talk) 12:32, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: "The safety of use during pregnancy has not been proven"
What? Have there been any studies done about its safety during pregnancy? If not, then this line seems to suggest that we should assume it is unsafe for the pregnant, when I cannot see how on earth it would be.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.101.135.39 (talk) 10:07, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meaningless rhetoric? 

message: Can anybody provide some details on the geographic distribution of Euphrasia species?
yoyo (talk) 02:32, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Distribution 
Talk:Perilla frutescens (version 2)

message: This article is in an atrocious state. It desperately needs to be divided into Shiso vs. Wild Sesame (egoma) for accuracy. A statement that applies to one strain does not apply blanketly across the board for the plant species. E.g.
* Common name "beefsteak plant" probably applies to shiso but probably should not automatically be extended to includ wild sesame (egoma).
* The source of lamplight oil was egoma but not shiso, but this might be ambiguous to the reader. 
* Should you really be lumping together the green perilla used in Korean cuisine (wild sesame/egoma) with the green shiso, when their tastes and usage are so different ? 
* Since the chemical profiles are also markedly different among the varieties, you probably should not make any blanket statements about omega-3 or any other nutritional claims, or fragrance factors. One books notes the strains contain completely different levels of Perilla ketone toxic to livestock. </br>--Kiyoweap (talk) 19:00, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: This article is indeed a mess, but the mess is spread across several other articles. It's a big task. There's also Perilla, Perilla (genus), Shiso and Vietnamese perilla. Most of what's in Perilla should be brought here, and Perilla (genus) should then be merged/redirected into Perilla. Shiso could stand as it is, but Vietnamese perilla is pretty confused. If there are separate articles for the plant in Vietnam and Japan (Shiso), there might as well be another for Korea (but I really think all countries would best be discussed here, in Perilla frutescens). Further work is badly needed, if you are inspired to give it a shot, I wish you the best. Plantdrew (talk)
apart from their close botanic relation, egoma and shiso are used differently and taste differently. Egoma is widely used for Korean barbecue (yakiniku), e.g., Shiso is widely used in Japanese food, in combination with Ponzu or temaki sushi, e.g. I grow both species where I live, Munich, Germany. The seeds look identical but the leafes and plants are clearly distinghuishable. egoma groes faster, higher, and is in general more robust. Leafes of Shiso grown in Munich are less delicate and have a stronger (unwanted) taste than those you can buy in a grocery in Japan (somehow closer to egoma which might induce some to claim that Shiso and egome taste the same). To divide the article in two parts might not appear to be necessary from a botanical point of view but from culinary pov and the way egoma and shiso are deployed in the kitchen a clear distinction is absolutely warranted.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.248.58.157 (talk) 18:12, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Must be divided into shiso and wild sesame (egoma) 

message: Egoma , Oilseed Perilla, Duelkkae does indeed refer to Perilla frutescens var. frutescens.
Question now is, as this is the more reliable page - Should the Perilla page be merged with this page?? 82.30.84.177 (talk) 12:19, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  As the article curreently stands is fine - As for Egoma...
Talk:Clerodendrum thomsoniae

message: many cats like to urinate on this plant and therefore make it grow big and strong  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.8.54.101 (talk) 05:07, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Martynia

message: :As per Plantlist Martynia genus has four accepted species. viz.
*Martynia annua L.
*Martynia jussieui (Schmidel) J.T. Howell
*Martynia louisiana Mill.
*Martynia palmeri S. Watson --Vinayaraj (talk) 16:20, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Monotypic genus?
Talk:Clerodendrum

message: According to GRIN (http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?196), the currently-accepted name of Clerodendrum ugandense is Rotheca myricoides.  Someone who has time should update this page to show this (and perhaps other) genera which have been split out of Clerodendrum. philiptdotcom (talk) 20:26, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  new name: some Clerodendrum split to Rotheca
Talk:Cheddar Valley line

message: The sentence "Further plans are being developed to extend the path from Wells to Shepton Mallet and then on to Cranmore with connecting paths. For details on all the future proposals visit the official Strawberry line web site at the bottom of this page." should not be placed after the references. I've added the first sentence to the Future plans section. The second sentence is not needed.— Rod talk 19:26, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: And I just reverted the re-insertion of both sentences a 3rd time :-(  --TimTay (talk) 21:36, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Future plans  

message: There is a lot of stuff here that is unreferenced, referring to the present day. There is a sentence that makes me particularly uncomfortable:
A roadsign in Draycott still bears the legend "Draycott Station 1/4 mile" (although the embossed letters are now painted over), and there are tunnels currently used as a bridges in Draycott and neighbouring Rodney Stoke. I don't see many roadsigns in Draycott nowadays that have embossed letters. 
If the sign is still there we need a date, because it might or might not be in a year's time; a photograph and a location (not just "in Draycott") would be good if we can't find a cited work.  As to what "there are tunnels used as a bridges" means, I have no idea. Afterbrunel (talk) 21:00, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I seem to remember it on the A371 Wells Road pointing down Back Lane. But that would be Original Research. Perhaps a visit with a camera is due? Geof Sheppard (talk) 14:00, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Balance of article; and dubious undated assertions 

message: The scope of this article is unclear, but rightly tends towards everything between Yatton and Witham. I am making that more explicit. The East Somerset Railway article is dominated by the present day heritage activity and in any case a pedantic limitation to Yatton to Wells here would leave the short bit linking the two liens at Wells, built much later, without a home. Afterbrunel (talk) 21:05, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The Cheddar Valley Railway is properly just Yatton to Wells. Witham to Cheddar was authorised as the East Somerset Railway - if changes are needed it is to get better balance in the latter article. Both the current usage (mostly cyclepath vs. partly operational and preserved) and the relative scarcity of through services between Yatton and Witham (those that did run often stopped at Wells for quite some time) both suggest that two articles here are better than one. Geof Sheppard (talk) 14:00, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yatton to Witham 
Talk:Justicia (plant)

message: Re: "They are not hardy below 7 °C (45 °F), so may be grown under glass in frost-prone areas"
Later in the page two species are stated hardy to below freezing, so could this sentence be restated thusly: "Most are not hardy below 7 °C (45 °F), so may be grown under glass in frost-prone areas"?
Briancady413 (talk) 21:53, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
Talk:Takeru Inukai

message: The article currently reads "He ran for a seat in the lower house of the Japanese Diet, under the Rikken Seiyūkai party in 1930, after his father's death. " Something about this has to be wrong, since his father died in 1932. This makes me cast doubt on the validity of the rest of the information as well, though it is rather difficult to find sources for fact checking in English. Could anyone confirm that Inukai did run in 1930 and that the date contained in the article is correct? Mr. G. Williams (talk) 14:26, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diet timeline
Talk:Avicennia germinans

message: This article only mentions a native zone up to coastal Georgia. In this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkjV07IMtkE), an over half-century Florida resident of St. Augustine, Florida, claims that at one point they could be found no farther than Marineland, Florida, but are shown to be well-established in St. Augustine, and are now found "much farther north", so how recent is this? B137 (talk) 04:12, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Climate change (AGW) indicator species - video link
Talk:Haboush's theorem

message: Should the title be changed? First, there are several other Mumford's conjectures in mathematics, and second, the article Haboush's theorem (linked from reductive group) redirects here. I think we should make up our mind whether to call the fact that certain groups are geometrically reductive either Haboush's theorem or Mumford's conjecture (depending on what's more standard in the field?), but be consistent throughout. Arcfrk 08:35, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Ruellia simplex

message: I have to question the acceptance of this name and the synonymization of Ruellia brittoniana under it.  R. brittoniana Leonard is a nomen novum for Cryphiacanthus angustifolius Nees, which could not be transferred to Ruellia because of the pre-existing name Ruellia angustifolia Sw.  (This latter name should also prevent the recognition of several later homonyms, including R. angustifolia Sesse & Mocino which is accepted as the "correct" name in this article but I'm not certain it is correctly applied to the same taxon as R. brittoniana).  To complicate matter, according to Tropicos the correct name for Ruellia brittoniana (and Cryphiacanthus angustifolius) should be R. coerulea Morong.  I'm no authority on this group so I can't say for certain which name is correct, only that there seems to be some nomenclatural confusion in the article, perhaps due to the various homonyms. MrDarwin 17:14, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Could it be moved to being an article titled Ruellia? I found this: "Ruellia simplex, an older and overlooked name for Ruellia tweediana and Ruellia coerulea (Acanthaceae)" and that R. coerulea Morong is only another name for R. coerulea rather than the definitive name.  Julia Rossi (talk) 12:23, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Further it might make more sense to simply start a new article titled Ruellia brittoniana and transfer the information there. Any comments?  Julia Rossi (talk) 12:26, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This has now been moved to Ruellia simplex based on discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Plants. First Light (talk) 16:27, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Synonymy?
Talk:Ruellia capitata

message: There's some issues with homonyms here. The Himalayan R. capitata seems to be the oldest, but there's apparently a more recent R. capitata described from Brazil. The Plant List doesn't have any of the 3 homonyms clearly resolved with regards to synonymy (and I'm seeing some variation in the authority citation for the Himalayan plant). Frankly, I think it would be best to delete this article. There's hardly any information there, and the situation with the homonyms is quite a mess to untangle. Plantdrew (talk) 20:30, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Homonyms
Talk:Deglobalization

message: Response to Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Deglobalization. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 12:38, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  external references
Talk:Planetary phase of civilization

message: This should maybe be removed. It seems quite distant in many respects. --Emesee (talk) 21:39, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  See also? Global warming?  

message: Would this qualify as a type-I civ per Kardashev scale ? Since the integration of the world would follow  exploitation of resources on a worldwide scale. 70.24.244.248 (talk) 09:36, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Type I
Talk:Catalpa

message: I have three seedling saplings of Catalpa, presumably the northern species, here in Northern Virginia. I recently took a particularly beautiful electronic closeup image of a flower panicle.
I'd like to have it added to the "Catalpa" article, under the Creative Commons license.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by DaveyHume (talk • contribs) 19:10, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  The inflorescence
Talk:Jan Willem de Jong

message: I was always under the impression that De Jong was dutch, and tus findit unlikely he was born in Canberra. This fact is not confirmed by teh linked biography. Tibetologist 08:51, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Oxford Science Park

message: It says 2008 in the image caption, but buses have been painted as oxford science park for much much longer than that. GoddersUK (talk) 16:14, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Have they?!! Time flies. The buses are 57 reg so it can only be 2007 or 08!! Please change if you know when it happened. When were the taxis also branded? Arriva436talk</b>]]/contribs 17:53, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No idea when it first happened, but the company that operates them has recently replaced a lot of it buses - including the OSP ones - they got a new livery too - the old ones looked like this http://www.oxford-chiltern-bus-page.co.uk/upload100203/TT-651-Oxford-Business-Park.jpg GoddersUK (talk) 13:14, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advertising on buses
Talk:Plymouth Science Park

message: Can we pleaase change our article title to Plymouth Science Par....any help appreciated.
space@plymouthsciencepark.com  — Preceding unsigned comment added by PlymSciencePark (talk • contribs) 11:45, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

message: Thankyou, now why couldn't you have done that initially, or at least raised your concern with Cwmhiraeth first? It's pretty mean spirited slopping a bunch of tags on an article immediately after somebody has put in a decent effort to expand it.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:29, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improvement
Talk:Information industry

message: Dr. Innocenti has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:
We hope Wikipedians on this talk page can take advantage of these comments and improve the quality of the article accordingly.
We believe Dr. Innocenti has expertise on the topic of this article, since he has published relevant scholarly research:
*Reference : Alessandro Innocenti & Pier Malpenga & Lorenzo Menconi & Alessandro Santoni, 2011. "Time lags in processing market-sensitive information. A case study," Department of Economic Policy, Finance and Development (DEPFID) University of Siena 0811, Department of Economic Policy, Finance and Development (DEPFID), University of Siena.
ExpertIdeasBot (talk) 18:35, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dr. Innocenti's comment on this article 

message: aasignment 112.204.186.146 (talk) 07:14, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  infromation of encanted kingdom
Talk:Crescentia alata

message: Are the seeds called jícaro? Badagnani (talk) 04:23, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No, jicaro is one of the names of the tree itself: see Google Books. I've added others from a University of Florida botanical factsheet. Gordonofcartoon (talk) 16:20, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Spanish name
Talk:Catalpa speciosa

message: The "three liabilities" listed, beyond not being cited, contain an apparent problematic item: "In addition, it often gets far too big for its allocated space in the landscape, and crowds out or casts too much shade on other desirable plants."  Isn't this more about the planter's poor planning, and doesn't this apply to all trees used for canopy? Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 13:15, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. In fact, the whole of the “Cultivation” section after the first para is completely unreferenced. Wikipedia threatens to remove unreferenced material, but in practice rarely seems to do so. Darorcilmir (talk) 13:39, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Liabilities 

message: In western Pennsylvania the common name for this tree is Indian toby tree. "Toby" is an old word for a cigar, and kids used to smoke the dried cigar-shaped fruits. Lyttle-Wight (talk) 15:30, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Indian toby tree
Talk:Converter (industry)

message: I considered recomending this page for deletion, but Converters is a term used in Industy Classification, such as UK Standard Industrial Classification. --Gavin Collins 15:56, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

message: *gasc.org
*ice-x
Tom Harrison Talk 14:22, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links, maybe useful 
Talk:Business history

message: The article Corporate history appears to overlap significantly with this article. Could a merger be justified? —Brigade Piron (talk) 18:31, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible [[WP:CFORK]]
Talk:Document imaging

message: Merge from Clubscan, non-notable, discontinued product. Jonpatterns (talk) 10:15, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds reasonable. Scannet (Safer Clubbing At Night Network) might also be worth creating. They seem to be still quite active, are found in other countries like Australia (although some digging will be required to establish whether the companies are linked). Klbrain (talk) 11:42, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from Clubscan