Would you cultivate a plant named "testicles?"

You may alredy be doing it - The orchid is named after the male genitalia. Its botanical family name, Orchidaceae, means "testicles" in Greek and may derive from an early notion that the orchid possessed aphrodisiac qualities.


 
Charles Mims
http://www.the-sandbox.org
 
 
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