Saturday, July 10, 2010

Some Amusing (?) Botanical Anagrams

Rearrange the letters in the following to spell the names of houseplant genera. Some of the genera in question are more obscure than others, but twelve (or thirteen, depending on how you count one) of them have been the subject of plant profiles before, which narrows things down somewhat. The others have all been mentioned here on multiple occasions.

Answers at the end of the post (highlight to read).

1. A LEO

2. I LEAP

3. PARISH

4. RESCUE

5. SMART ONE

6. BURGLAR SCHEME

7. MONSTER HAT

8. LO! HIDDEN PORN!

9. MINOR PLAGUE

10. CAVIAR CLOUD

11. OH, MELANOMA!

12. E-MAIL TO:

13. PINHEAD LUST

14. DATA CANISTER

15. AUDIO REBEL

16. FLESH FARCE

17. DISCUSS NAP

18. UPSET CARPORTS

19. HAPLESS PIANO

20. U.S.S. DIAPER POLISH






Answers:
1. ALOE (UPDATE: Jordan points out in comments that this could also be OLEA.)
2. PILEA
3. RHAPIS
4. CEREUS
5. MONSTERA
6. SCHLUMBERGERA
7. STROMANTHE
8. PHILODENDRON
9. PELARGONIUM
10. CARLUDOVICA
11. HOMALOMENA
12. TOLMIEA
13. PEDILANTHUS
14. TRADESCANTIA
15. LEDEBOURIA
16. SCHEFFLERA
17. SCINDAPSUS
18. STREPTOCARPUS
19. PHALAENOPSIS
20. PSEUDORHIPSALIS


5 comments:

Liza said...

Hahahaha! I love anagrams! These were fantastic.

Jordan said...

I quickly glanced through it, but only got two right off the back.

Turns out it was only one, but technically the first one could be Olea too.

That still doesn't excuse the fact that I love word games, love plants, and gave up way to easily on 'em.

Emily said...

So funny! Clever post idea :)

mr_subjunctive said...

Jordan:

I'm actually really bad at anagrams; either I get them within the first five seconds, or I never get them at all, and it's usually the latter. I like coming up with them better than I like trying to solve them.

I've edited the post to include your (very valid) point about OLEA.

Nature Assassin said...

Awesome!!