Everything I tagged with botany:

Titi [Cyrilla]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrilla_racemiflora

Cyrilla racemiflora, the sole species in the genus Cyrilla, is a flowering plant in the family Cyrillaceae… Common names include swamp cyrilla, red titi, black titi, white titi, leatherwood, ironwood, he huckleberry, and myrtle.

Equal-opportunity titis!!!

#LOL #HAHA #TITTIES

#IAMFIVEYEARSOLD

Arbutus

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbutus

arbutus

Haha. It sounds like “butt.”

Also: damn you, NY Times Sunday crosswords.

Will-o’-the-Wisp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will-o%27-the-wisp

A will-o’-the-wisp or ignis fatuus (Latin, from ignis, “fire” + fatuus, “foolish”), also called will-o’-wisp, corpse candle, jack-o’-lantern, friar’s lantern, gunderslislik, and wisp, is a Folklore depiction of ghostly light sometimes seen at night or twilight over bogs, swamps, and marshes.

Ignis fatuus” is one of those wonderful phrases that sounds like it should be an insult, but isn’t.

Reminds me of the time one of my white trash cousins called the other an “oxymoron.” We all laughed…but I stopped when I realized he was serious.

Man-Eating Tree

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-eating_tree

In his 1955 book, Salamanders and other Wonders, science author Willy Ley determined that the Mkodo tribe, Carl Liche, and the Madagascar man-eating tree itself all appeared to be fabrications.

OM NOM NOM