RE: Tuber vs. Corm

From: "Dr. C. R. Waldron" <cwaldron at frognet.net> on 1999.01.13 at 01:39:07(2886) ------ =_NextPart_000_01BE3E0B.2D6049C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable +More I thought the most interesting reply on the last go round was from = Wilbert. If I remember correctly, he said that in Dutch no distinction = is made--the same word is used for both structures (is that correct = Wilbert?). We are well aware that in taxonomy there are the "lumpers" = and the "splitters." Do we have the same among the = morphologists?--especially the English-speaking morphologists? Yes, we all want to know what it "really" is. But I am reminded of = Alice's discussion with the Gnat through the Looking Glass and what Alice Saw There, Lewis Carroll): Regarding insects, Alice says to the Gnat: "I = can tell you the names of some of them." "Of course they answer to = their names?" the Gnat remarked carelessly. "I never knew them to do = it," Alice replies. "What's the use of their having names," the Gnat = asked, "if they won't answer to them?" "No use to them," said Alice; = "but it's useful to the people that name them, I suppose. If not, why = do things have names at all?" "I can't say," said the Gnat. "In the = wood down there, they've got no names--" On the last round I insisted that they were tubers but now I wonder why. = Is it just so we can scoff with an air of superiority at those who use = the "wrong" name when we all know exactly what is meant anyway? Corms or tubers? Interesting. Any why are the little offsets in = Amorphophallus bulbifer, muelleri, etc., and Pinellia ternata, etc. = called bulbils? Clarence ------- Sent: Monday, January 11, 1999 7:57 PM To: cwaldron@frognet.net Subject: Tuber vs. Corm I was talking with a Ph.D Botanist (name withheld for obvious reasons) = who is a recognized authority on different types of bulbs.... He said, when = I asked him, that Amorphophallus is a corm and not a tuber or bulb. I = think he said something about the cell structure..... Do we want to start this discussion again....??? Which is it? Dewey Dewey E. 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