What's in a name?

[Donn]

Well ... there's probably more to the story, but here's what we can quickly piece together.

Pimpinella is the Italian name for "burnet", which is a fairly unremarkable genus of flowering plants, shrubby little things with a pinnate leaf - i.e., the leaf midrib forms a stem, with a row of leaflets on either side.
Rosa pimpinellifolia is a type of wild rose, whose leaf reminded someone of burnet, the Latin meaning "burnet leaf rose".
Pimpinellifoliae is a taxon of rose species of interest only to botanists, and also there's a rust that afflicts the burnet rose, Phragmidium rosae-pimpinellifoliae. The Latin meaning "related to burnet leaf rose."

[Ken Herrick]

Information overload - I better go back to bed............

[opus37]

Well ... there's probably more to the story, but here's what we can quickly piece together.

Pimpinella is the Italian name for "burnet", which is a fairly unremarkable genus of flowering plants, shrubby little things with a pinnate leaf - i.e., the leaf midrib forms a stem, with a row of leaflets on either side.
Rosa pimpinellifolia is a type of wild rose, whose leaf reminded someone of burnet, the Latin meaning "burnet leaf rose".
Pimpinellifoliae is a taxon of rose species of interest only to botanists, and also there's a rust that afflicts the burnet rose, Phragmidium rosae-pimpinellifoliae. The Latin meaning "related to burnet leaf rose."

Not something I expected to learn on a tuba forum, but very nicely done and informative. Now I wonder, at what event would a southern gentleman or lady show up with such a name tag?

[Three Valves]

They seek him here,

They seek him there,

Those Frenchies seek him everywhere...

Is he in Heaven??

Is he in Hell??

That damned elusive Scarlet Pimpinellifoliae!!

[iiipopes]

bloke - helping the Mrs. in the garden again?