Sycamore may be called by a variety of names, including Buttonwood, plane tree, sycamore – but this small woody shrub of Florida is also know as buttonwood. Imagine how many trees might have been used locally for making buttons at one time or another…
How many plants do you imagine have a disagreeable odor when crushed?
Why is it important to include the name of the author as part of the scientific name? What’s the point of this? IS it simply to give credit to some famous discoverer ?
For Franklinia, Bartram named it for Franklin, but didn’t publish in the literature – a colonial ‘farmer’ – Marsh published the name Bartram had given.