Talk:Solidago villosicarpa

A fact from Solidago villosicarpa appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 April 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the coastal goldenrod (pictured) grows well after a hurricane has blown down the trees surrounding it?

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Mistranslation[edit]

FYI, the epithet is mistranslated. The compound villosicarpa translates as "shaggy fruit," or loosely in this case as "shaggy achene." Carpus is "fruit" ("seed" would be seminum) and villosa is better translated as the more specific "shaggy" ("hairy" would be pubescens).--♦♦♦Vlmastra♦♦♦ (talk) 05:15, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]