Jujube Jujube?
I only came across an interesting tidbit on the nomenclature of the cultivated jujube (mostly on an obscure corner of the mesh called Wikipedia...)
Ever since I learned the jujubes were actual fruit together with non only a type of candy, I've been using Ziziphus jujube every bit the Latin get upwardly (now, granted, it's non similar the Latin binomial for jujube comes upwardly inwards my daily conversation that much). Well, patently I'm a piddling flake behind the times, because the get upwardly seems to accept been Ziziphus zizyphus since 1882.
I personally am together with then easily amused that this lone would move adequate to entertain me, but the even of how it injure upwardly alongside that get upwardly is sort of interesting every bit well. In general, tautonyms (those inwards which the genus together with species names are identical), piece permitted inwards zoological nomenclature (hence Gorilla gorilla together with Iguana iguana) are no skilful inwards botanical names. However, this i skated past times on a technicality.
It was Mr. Taxonomy himself, Carolus Linnaeus, who gave the species its outset modern binomial, Rhamnus zizyphus, placing it inwards the same genus every bit the buckthorns. However, inwards 1768 Philip Miller (a slow together with reluctant adopter of Linneaus' binomial system) decided it was sufficiently dissimilar to merit a classify genus, together with gave it the get upwardly Ziziphus jujube. Why he changed it from a 'y' to an 'i' is unclear--it powerfulness good accept been a typographical error. However, the arcane rules of taxonomy dictated that because Ziziphus together with zizyphus were the outset validly published together with described names, together with were non genuinely inwards violation of the tautonym dominion thank you lot to the spelling difference, together with thus the appropriate name, together with then inwards 1882 the get upwardly was changed to Ziziphus zizyphus.
And yes, I realize I'm in all probability i of near 3 people who flora that interesting.
Ever since I learned the jujubes were actual fruit together with non only a type of candy, I've been using Ziziphus jujube every bit the Latin get upwardly (now, granted, it's non similar the Latin binomial for jujube comes upwardly inwards my daily conversation that much). Well, patently I'm a piddling flake behind the times, because the get upwardly seems to accept been Ziziphus zizyphus since 1882.
I personally am together with then easily amused that this lone would move adequate to entertain me, but the even of how it injure upwardly alongside that get upwardly is sort of interesting every bit well. In general, tautonyms (those inwards which the genus together with species names are identical), piece permitted inwards zoological nomenclature (hence Gorilla gorilla together with Iguana iguana) are no skilful inwards botanical names. However, this i skated past times on a technicality.
It was Mr. Taxonomy himself, Carolus Linnaeus, who gave the species its outset modern binomial, Rhamnus zizyphus, placing it inwards the same genus every bit the buckthorns. However, inwards 1768 Philip Miller (a slow together with reluctant adopter of Linneaus' binomial system) decided it was sufficiently dissimilar to merit a classify genus, together with gave it the get upwardly Ziziphus jujube. Why he changed it from a 'y' to an 'i' is unclear--it powerfulness good accept been a typographical error. However, the arcane rules of taxonomy dictated that because Ziziphus together with zizyphus were the outset validly published together with described names, together with were non genuinely inwards violation of the tautonym dominion thank you lot to the spelling difference, together with thus the appropriate name, together with then inwards 1882 the get upwardly was changed to Ziziphus zizyphus.
And yes, I realize I'm in all probability i of near 3 people who flora that interesting.
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