LL-L "Botanica" 2005.10.06 (04) [E]

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06 October 2005 * Volume 04
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From: heather rendall <HeatherRendall at compuserve.com>
Subject: LL-L "Traditions" 2005.10.04 (02) [E]

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English: Great stonecrop, Orpine
Dutch: Hemelsleutel (heaven's key)
German: Fetthenne ("fat hen")<

How odd!

Fat hen is something quite different in English - looks nothing like the
'house leek' which is traditionally planted or allowed to grow on the roofs
to ward off lightning strikes.

The house leek is a fat leaved, round,  many leaved sedum - but fat hen is
a green straggly plant - at least here in Worcestershire!

Heather

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Botanica

Heather (above):

> How odd!

Isn't it though?

> Fat hen is something quite different in English -

Botanical: Chenopodium album
English: fat-hen ~ fat hen, bacon weed, dirty dick, dung weed,
     goose foot, muck hill, pig weed, USA: lamb's quarters
Dutch: melganzevoet ("flour? saltbush? goose foot")*
Low Saxon: Mell, Mellkohl ("saltbush? (cabbage)")*
German: weißer Gänsefuß ("white goose foot")
Danish: hvidmelet gåsefod ("white-flour? saltbush? goose foot")*
Norwegian: meldestokk ("grinding? saltbush? stalk")*
Swedish: hvitmässing ("white-brass")
French: chenopode blanc
Spanish: cenizo blanco
Portuguese: anserina-branca
Polish: komosa biała ("white pigweed")
Czech: merlík bílý ("white goose foot")
Russian: марь белая (mar' belaja "white-Mary/goose foot"?)
Ukrainian: лобода біла (loboda byla "white goose foot")
Finnish: missourinsavikka ("Missouri-clay"???)
Estonian: valge hanemalts ("white goose foot")
Hungarian: fehér libatop ("white goose foot")
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* atriplex L. 'saltbush'

It is considered both a weed and a useful plant.  It's seeds are edible, 
known as "quinoa."

P.S.:
> who was away for 4 days

What?! Without getting a leave slip?!  Tsk-tsk ... 

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