All,
Was digging around for a photo, didn’t find it in DaffSeek, so hit the internet just to see…
And found out that Wikipedia has a site now for species.
Has anyone in the species world reviewed what’s on Wikispecies (i think that’s its title) to see if it’s tolerable?
After realizing the info was erroneous on the general daff page (which i believe either Donna D or Jill G straightened out), thought i’d ask about this
I know some folks aren’t big Wiki fans, but i use it for a quick thumbnail then look at the references listed for real digging…
-s
I don’t know enough about species to give an opinion.
Donna
Sara and All,
I guess I’d be in that group of people who aren’t big Wiki fans. Any site that allows anyone to change/correct material is suspect to me.
I went to Wikispecies and noticed that they list Narcissus in the Alliaceae Family. (I’ve also seen Narcissus listed in the Lilliaceae Family, maybe a USDA website.) Don’t we still teach that they’re in the Amaryllis family? If you go to Wikipedia and search on Narcissus, then click on a particular species (I clicked on the first one, N. alcaracensis), it says it’s in the Amaryllis Family. So the site itself isn’t consistent. I looked at a few photos in Wikispecies, and the first one was N. bicolor, which showed an all yellow flower. All the photos in DaffSeek show a white and yellow flower. So, you decide if the site is suspect or not.
Maybe Harold or Marilynn or someone more familiar with species will comment on this.
Mary Lou
I always take Wiki with a grain of salt, which is why if I’m really in need of accurate info I then go to the sources posted
There are scads and scads of people who do not, however.
My interest/concern is to make sure that what is posted publically about daffodils/Narcissus, where most of the public turns for information, is something the ADS and RHS can live with
If not, then it’s up to knowledgeable representatives from the organizations to change it
I have found way more folks go to other internet sources for their daff information, and once I find them at a show it’s difficult to disabuse them of their faulty information
Much easier to correct the source than to argue said info down on a gardener-by-gardener basis…
The International Plant Names Index identifies Amaryllidaceae for
Narcissus.
http://www.ipni.org/
For what it’s worth!
Debbie Green in western NC, USA
Anyone who believes that everything on the net is true, is condemed to be
ignorant.
Much is said that is complimentary about the Master Gardener Program, but here
in Columbus, they are still teaching that you can braid and tie daffodil foliage
and cut it off right after bloom. One M. G., giving a power point on trees,
continually referred to the emissions from trees as “carbon monoxide” even
writing it on her slides as that, along with CO2 written out, as well.
Donna