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00:13 Nov 26, 2014 |
Spanish to English translations [PRO] Botany | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Charles Davis Spain Local time: 17:56 | ||||||
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4 +1 | Sesuvium_portulacastrum (shoreline/sea purslane) OR Salicornia fruticosa (glasswort) |
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2 | woad, glastum (Isatis tinctoria) |
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vidrio (planta) woad, glastum (Isatis tinctoria) Explanation: I followed the link below at http://etimologias.dechile.net/?vidrio. The site won't let me copy the passage, but it refers to a plant named Isatis tinctoria, which is woad or glastum (also "glasto" in Spanish). VIDRIO - Diccionario Etimológico etimologias.dechile.net/?vidrioTranslate this page **El vidrio se teñía y tenía un color azulado o azul-verdoso. Resulta que vitrum es el nombre de una planta, el glasto, planta pastel o Isatis tinctoria, ** Isatis tinctoria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isatis_tinctoria Isatis tinctoria, with woad or glastum as the common name, is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is commonly called dyer's woad. It is occasionally ... History of woad cultivation - Woad and indigo - Woad and health |
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Sesuvium_portulacastrum (shoreline/sea purslane) OR Salicornia fruticosa (glasswort) Explanation: Not easy to research, largely because you get so many references to glass. It has to be an Ecuadorian plant, obviously; there may be plants called "vidrio" that grow in other parts of the world, and I think this is the case with Rachel's Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum, whose range in America doesn't seem to extend south of northern Mexico. Unfortunately there seem to be two plants known as "vidrio" in Ecuador and it could be either. One is Salicornia fruticosa (L.) A. J. Scott. Here it is with a picture (by the way, some place it in the Amaranthaceae family, but its generally regarded as belonging to the Chenopodiaceae): "Salicornia fruticosa Amaranthaceae Romero costeño, Vidrio" (p. 2). Cordillera de El Bálsamo, Bahía de Caráquez-Ecuador Plantas del Bosque Seco http://fieldguides.fieldmuseum.org/sites/default/files/rapid... "Flora [...] Familia: Chenopodiaceae Nombre Científico: Salicornia fruticosa (L) Nombre Común. Vidrio" http://repositorio.ucsg.edu.ec/bitstream/123456789/1293/1/T-... It's found in Venezuela too: "En los cayos la vegetación es muy escasa: hierba de vidrio (Salicornia fruticosa), campanilla de playa (Sesuvium portulacastrum), saladillo (Batis maritima), uvero de playa (Coccoloba uvifera)." http://www.monografias.com/trabajos74/trabajo-campo-parque-m... The other is Sesuvium portulacastrum (L.) L.: "Flora [...] Familia: Aizoaceae Nombre Científico: Sesuvium portulacastrum (L) L Nombre Común. Vidrio" http://repositorio.ucsg.edu.ec/bitstream/123456789/1293/1/T-... http://books.google.es/books?id=0ln7wYFR5QUC&pg=PA577&lpg=PA... "Tabla 5. Especies encontradas e identificadas en los bosques de manglar y salitrales presentes en el sur de la isla Mondragón. [...] AIZOACEAE Sesuvium portulacastrum (L.) L. Vidrio" (p. 23) http://simce.ambiente.gob.ec/sites/default/files/documentos/... If you Google these scientific names with "vidrio" you'll find more references. On the plants themselves and their English common names: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/tax_search.pl?Sali... http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?33794 http://www.darwinfoundation.org/datazone/checklists/17883/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesuvium_portulacastrum http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesuvium_portulacastrum I don't know which of these is more likely to be the one your list refers to. Maybe you'd better put both and explain in a note. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 7 hrs (2014-11-26 07:50:37 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- By the way, Salicornia fruticosa is also known as Sarcocornia fruticosa; the GRIN database gives priority to the latter: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?415293 -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 8 hrs (2014-11-26 08:21:23 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Ahora bien, cabe la posibilidad de que alguna de estas dos plantas aparezca en otra parte de tu lista bajo otro nombre. En tal caso, podría deducirse que "vidrio" se refiere a la otra. |
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