A Textural Little Bit of Latin By Henry Flowers In continuing with our look at Latin used in botanical names (click here for our previous post), here are some words that are used to describe texture: anthocomus, schidigera, spinosus—spiny acicularis—needle-like aculeatus, echinatus, horridus, hystrix—prickly anacanthus—lacking prickles or thorns arachnoides—cobwebby armatus—thorny aspericaulis/asperifolius—rough-stemmed/rough-leaved barbatus—barbed or bearded cartilaginous—cartilage-like in texture cerefolius/ceraceus—waxy-leaved copallinus, gummosus, resinosus, […] https://herbsocietyblog.wordpr....ess.com/2024/05/20/a
