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Everyone can see the coordinates unless the taxon is threatened.
Hm, there are a number of plants that go by the name "sarsaparilla", but the only record of a genus by that names seems to be the uBio one. Do you know if the name for the plant you saw has changed? Maybe to Smilax?
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Hm, there are a number of plants that go by the name "sarsaparilla", but the only record of a genus by that names seems to be the uBio one. Do you know if the name for the plant you saw has changed? Maybe to Smilax?
Hrmm, yes, it probably did. I'll look it up shortly and change it. We saw a lot of stuff and were just calling them by common names that day. Thanks!
D'oh! And by sarsaparilla I of course mean sassafras. ^_~
Haha, we just call them all root beer plants.
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