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Wed 8 Jul, 2009 01:50 am
Kimilsungia flower is named after Kim Il Sung. Well, how to name Oristar's flower? You know Kimjongilia is different because what?
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2009 Tours
Travel to North Korea - Flower Exhibition Centre
When you travel to North Korea you will have the chance to see a flower exhibition, perhaps the only of its kind in the world.
The Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Exhibition Hall hosts the International Kimilsungia and Kimjongilia Festivals which focus exclusively on two flowers; the Kimilsungia and the Kimjongilia, named after the Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il respectively. The latter was bred by an Indonesian botanist and the later by a Japanese one then presented as gifts to the DPRK.
@oristarA,
Acccording to the rules below:
Quote:A recommendation for forming generic names to commemorate men or women is that these should be treated as feminine and formed as follows:
For names ending in a vowel, terminate with -a
For names ending in -a, terminate with -ea
For names ending in -ea , do not change
For names ending in a consonant, add -ia
For names ending in -er, add -a
For Latinized names ending in -us, change the ending to -ia
Quote:The rules which now govern the naming and the names of plants really had their beginnings in the views of Augustin P. de Candolle as he expressed them in his Théorie élémentaire de la botanique (1813).
There, he advised that plants should have names in Latin (or Latin form but not compounded from different languages), formed according to the rules of Latin grammar and subject to the right of priority for the name given by the discoverer or the first describer.
Following these rules, a flower named to commemorate Oristar, should be
Oristaria.
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