panalillo

English translation: creeping zinnia

17:29 Feb 4, 2005
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Science - Botany
Spanish term or phrase: panalillo
Another Mexican word for a kind of plant. My Mexicanismos dictionary gives "palo de charapo" or "charapo" as a synonym, and the horticultural term, Thouinidium decandrum. Any ideas?
MSuderman
Local time: 23:54
English translation:creeping zinnia
Explanation:
also Mexican creeping zinnia. Hth

Plant Profile for Sanvitalia (creeping zinnia) - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... ocymoides yellow creeping zinnia, Sanvitalia procumbens Mexican creeping zinnia,
«Back to Top». Classification: Sanvitalia Lam. Click on a scientific name below ...
plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/plant_profile.cgi?symbol=SANVI - 25k - En caché - Páginas similares
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How to Grow Creeping Zinnia (Sanvitalia Procumbens) - eHow.com - [ Traduzca esta página ]
How to Grow Creeping Zinnia (Sanvitalia Procumbens)This ground-hugging charmer
covers itself with little yellow flowers with brown centers. ...
www.ehow.com/how_6777_grow-creeping-zinnia.html - 33k - En caché - Páginas similares



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Plant Profile for Sanvitalia (creeping zinnia) - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... Sanvitalia abertii Albert\'s creeping zinnia, Sanvitalia ocymoides yellow creeping
zinnia, Sanvitalia procumbens Mexican creeping zinnia, «Back to Top». ...
plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/plant_profile.cgi?symbol=SANVI - 25k - En caché - Páginas similares
[ Más resultados de plants.usda.gov ]

Plant specimen from Sa - Sc - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... COMPOSITAE, trailing santivalia creeping zinnia. Sanvitalia procumbens. COMPOSITAE,
Mexican creeping zinnia. Sapindus drummondii. SAPINDACEAE, soapberry. ...
www.crescentbloom.com/Plants/Specimen/SA/default.htm - 75k - En caché - Páginas similares
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Luis Rey Ballesteros (Luiroi)
Local time: 00:54
Grading comment
As it turns out, panalillo is used for many different flowers. Creeping zinnia is one, and the other that seems like a good possibility is alyssum. But your links put me on the right track. Thanks.
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Summary of answers provided
5Thouinidium decandrum (soapberry)
Michele Fauble
4creeping zinnia
Luis Rey Ballesteros (Luiroi)
4pepper grass // Poor-man's Pepper
Herminia Herrándiz Espuny


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creeping zinnia


Explanation:
also Mexican creeping zinnia. Hth

Plant Profile for Sanvitalia (creeping zinnia) - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... ocymoides yellow creeping zinnia, Sanvitalia procumbens Mexican creeping zinnia,
«Back to Top». Classification: Sanvitalia Lam. Click on a scientific name below ...
plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/plant_profile.cgi?symbol=SANVI - 25k - En caché - Páginas similares
[ Más resultados de plants.usda.gov ]



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Note added at 7 mins (2005-02-04 17:36:38 GMT)
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How to Grow Creeping Zinnia (Sanvitalia Procumbens) - eHow.com - [ Traduzca esta página ]
How to Grow Creeping Zinnia (Sanvitalia Procumbens)This ground-hugging charmer
covers itself with little yellow flowers with brown centers. ...
www.ehow.com/how_6777_grow-creeping-zinnia.html - 33k - En caché - Páginas similares



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Note added at 8 mins (2005-02-04 17:37:23 GMT)
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Plant Profile for Sanvitalia (creeping zinnia) - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... Sanvitalia abertii Albert\'s creeping zinnia, Sanvitalia ocymoides yellow creeping
zinnia, Sanvitalia procumbens Mexican creeping zinnia, «Back to Top». ...
plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/plant_profile.cgi?symbol=SANVI - 25k - En caché - Páginas similares
[ Más resultados de plants.usda.gov ]

Plant specimen from Sa - Sc - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... COMPOSITAE, trailing santivalia creeping zinnia. Sanvitalia procumbens. COMPOSITAE,
Mexican creeping zinnia. Sapindus drummondii. SAPINDACEAE, soapberry. ...
www.crescentbloom.com/Plants/Specimen/SA/default.htm - 75k - En caché - Páginas similares


Luis Rey Ballesteros (Luiroi)
Local time: 00:54
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
As it turns out, panalillo is used for many different flowers. Creeping zinnia is one, and the other that seems like a good possibility is alyssum. But your links put me on the right track. Thanks.
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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
pepper grass // Poor-man's Pepper


Explanation:
panalillo = Lepidium virginicum L.

... Lepidium virginicum L., a member of the Brassicaceae (Cru- ciferae) family, is
frequently known as lentejilla, panalillo, put xiu, put kan, mixixe, common ...
taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/ index/8B7W4QK5Y0VNF64P.pdf

Robinson Pepper-grass [Lepidium virginicum L. var. robinsonii (Thell.) Hitchc.].
Robinson Pepper-grass [Lepidium virginicum L. var. ...
sandiego.sierraclub.org/rareplants/140.html

Lepidium virginicum L. Family - Brassicaceae. Flowers. Info. - This species,
commonly called "Pepper Grass" or "Poor Man's Pepper ...
www.hawriverprogram.org/NCPlants/ Lepidium_virginicum_page.html

... 1913. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada, Second
Edition. Poor-man's Pepper (Lepidium virginicum L.). ...
www.nearctica.com/flowers/brassic/lepid/Lvirgin.htm

. 9 3 27 Oenothera biennis L. Common evening-primrose 9 3 27 Lepidium virginicum L.
Virginia pepper-grass 9 3 27 Apocynum cannabinum L. American hemp 9 3 27 ...
www.greatrivergreening.org/_downloads/east_central/ List%2028%20Dry%20Barrens%20Prairie%20(Southern).pdf


Herminia Herrándiz Espuny
Spain
Local time: 07:54
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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Thouinidium decandrum (soapberry)


Explanation:
Provided the species name Thouinidium decandrum is correct (and the geographical area would indicate that it is), it is a tree of the soapberry family (Sapindaceae). It does not seem to have a common name in English.

SAPINDACEAE Thouinidium decandrum. © Colin Hughes. Specimen information ...
herbarium.literal.si/images/?item=28338

... This riparian forest has a higher canopy (average 18 m) and a larger proportion of trees wih DBH larger than 30 cm, with Thouinidium decandrum (Sapindaceae ...
www.bioone.org/bioone/?request=get-document& issn=1100-9233&volume=013&issue=02&page=0145

The Sapindaceae are mostly trees and shrubs, and tendril-bearing
vines comprising about 140 genera and 1,500 species. ...
www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/sapind.htm

Sapindaceae (soapberry family). Mark A. Dimmitt. The soapberry family has over 1300 species worldwide, many of which are toxic. The ...
www.desertmuseum.org/books/sapindaceae.html



Michele Fauble
United States
Local time: 23:54
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 28
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