Comments on: Taiwan’s 2007 Flower Festival at Yangmingshan National Park

By: Jed Jelliman

Jed Jelliman — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:22:10 +0000

Jed Jelliman

Wow! We see little bits and peices here and there but don\’t really get a sense of how lovely the whole thing is overall.

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Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:29:30 +0000

[...] and were able to find every other museum except the one we were looking for. We saw signs for the Yangmingshan Flower Festival, the Science Museum, the Astrological Museum and Sea World, but ne’er a glimpse of The [...]

By: globetrotteri

globetrotteri — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 16:39:33 +0000

Radio Taiwan International just linked my article to their website for my photos at the Yangmingshan Flower Festival this year.

By: globetrotteri

globetrotteri — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:36:12 +0000

Thanks Mark! I wasn’t sure how to go about identifying the Asian melastome at first until I saw it in a brochure at the Yangmingshan Flower Festival last week. It’s too bad Yangming Park doesn’t offer a genus name and a common name, since most people identify flora and fauna by a common name, rather than learning hard to remember Latin names. Where did you find your information?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:40:01 +0000

Most people just call them Asian melastome. They grow in Hawaii, too. The Latin names of a lot of plants sound like diseases, since a lot of diseases are named in a similar way. For the curious, melastoma is the name of the genus, which is followed by the name of the species in a Latin or "scientific" name. So, other plants of the same genus will start with the same word. For example melastoma sanguineum, or "fox-tongued melastome" would be another plant species of the same family. It would be a little odd to go around calling them them by their latin names, though. It would be kind of like calling mountain zebras equus hartmannae.

By: globetrotteri

globetrotteri — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:18:38 +0000

Yeah. I’ve been wondering myself since I arrived here over a year ago. I love these little guys and they seem to grow almost anywhere here. I was a little surprised by the name though. They sound like some type of skin cancer.

By: battlepanda

battlepanda — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:58:12 +0000

melastoma candidum
So that’s what those gorgeous purple things are called…