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I love scientific names. It was my favorite part of 7th grade biology.
posted by Camille at 6:33 AM
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
I love scientific names. It was my favorite part of 7th grade biology.
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- Name: Camille
- Location: Virginia via New Jersey, United States
I'm a stay-home mom of a four-year-old boy and a two-year-old girl. I'm a bookworm and bibliophile. I'm a hobby baker and cake decorator (but not so much lately). I'm a former first-grade teacher and will go back to teaching after kids are in school. I love coffee and crossword puzzles, maps and libraries, the smell of Dreft and irises, playdates and baby smiles, gin and tonics and the changes of the seasons, road trips and used bookstores.
5 Comments:
The picture feels like art. It's a "tulip poplar" by common name, right? I have been REALLY INTERESTED in names of trees and birds and plants lately. Weirding myself out, I am.
Thanks, Funky! Yes, it's a tulip poplar. It's in our side yard. We didn't know what it was when we first moved here. I took that picture last year. Anyway, nature names are cool. I have an Audubon Field Guide to Trees because at one time, I, too, wanted to know the names of trees. I never did use it much, though.
I'm not so good with the scientific names. It's only really since I started posting pictures on my blog that I've been paying more attention to the names of flowers and such.
But anyway, that's a beautiful shade of green and I love the shape of the leaves. :)
Tanabata--I don't really know the scientific names off the top of my head. I had to look this one up, but they are so interesting. I just love names in general. And yes, the leaf shape is very different. On a field trip in the woods when I was teaching, the park ranger told the kids to think of tulip poplar leaves as fox faces--you can see the ears and whiskers.
We have one of these trees down the street. I love the flowers - they are huge, butgreen, so they're camoflaged unless you look closely.
I learned the name of this tree in 7th grade - we had to make a book of pressed leaves from local trees.
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