[lit-ideas] Musa Sapientum -- and other Vegetables ("Green Linnaeus")

 
In a message dated 8/25/2004 5:58:24 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Ohhhh,  okay.  I see I had it all backwards.  Gotcha.  
I don't know the Latin for 'peach', but the latin for "banana" is "Musa  
Sapientum", the muse of science (or the muse for those in the know). 
 
I wonder if other fruits have such poetic scientific names. Apple, pear,  
grape, grapefruit, watermelon. There must -- and I'm sure they are taxidermed 
in  
some museum of fruit and vegetable, somewhere. 
 
Would be nice to have a checklist of the latin genus/species latin names  for 
the most common fruits (and vegetables) around -- to see if I can brush up  
my Latin.

Cheers,
 
JL



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