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Old 22-11-2009, 02:13 PM
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Re: Split Gill - Schizophyllum commune

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Originally Posted by Chris Yeates View Post
.......this theme has been thrashed out before on these 'pages', so I'll shut up; but before I do, we are lucky to have Andreas visiting this site - he has been of immense help to people here . . . English names probably mean little to him . . . maybe we should accord him the courtesy of using the German vernacular name for a species (after all if two names are good, three must be better?) or maybe he would settle for the internationally understood scientific name . . .

Chris
His field guide, 'Mushrooms & Toadstools of Britain and Europe', publised in the Black's Nature Guide series gives predominance to the English name 'Common Porecrust', but I suspect this was a decision of general policy made by the publisher rather than that of Andreas himself.

David

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