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The young person staying with me asks as we discuss what to do with the mysterious gift of asparagus brought by --- I don't know who, while I was at work -- just what family asparagus is in anyway.
Too quickly, it turns out, I answer: liliaceae. So are the onions. But then I want to explain how they are related, and off I go to wikipedia and I discover that the monocots have been turned uptheblossomingside down and over again into some other dimension from the last time I looked at them which couldn't have been that long ago, could it?
Anyway, asparagus has been removed from the liliaceae, and so have the onions. Now it's asparagus all the way down.
Oh, why not, let's do the whole routine:
kingdom plantae
clade angiosperms
clade monocots
order asparagales
family asparagaceae
subfamily asparagoideae
genus asparagus
Onions are now in the family Amarallydaceae, subfamily allioidaceae -- oh yes, order asparagales. And orchids are in asparagales, too. And brodiaeas and aloes and hyacinths and yucca trees and irises and day lilies and ixiolirions and a whole bunch of things from Australia.
What does liliaceae have left? Lilies: calochortus (pariposa lilies, or pussy ears),fritillaries, and tulips. And some other stuff I don't recognize. Liliales apparently has subdivisions labeled "tribes."
And I am sorry to say I got distracted and burned the asparagus soup. But the stir-fried asparagus is ready to be eaten tomorrow. It is sealed up and waiting to cool enough to be put into the fridge.
I also have a gift of too much broccoli and too much red cabbage but I swear I will fix it all up nice and eatable tomorrow so we can just eat off it for the week.
I cleaned up the sign of rat that was hiding behind the blender but now there is a javelin-poking party going on all over my face and scalp, so the young person will have to clean out behind the stove tomorrow.
edit: there is also a site called nudi-pixel which is primarily devoted to pictures of nudibranchs. I will not tell you why I need these, but rest assured it is a very trivial reason.
Too quickly, it turns out, I answer: liliaceae. So are the onions. But then I want to explain how they are related, and off I go to wikipedia and I discover that the monocots have been turned uptheblossomingside down and over again into some other dimension from the last time I looked at them which couldn't have been that long ago, could it?
Anyway, asparagus has been removed from the liliaceae, and so have the onions. Now it's asparagus all the way down.
Oh, why not, let's do the whole routine:
kingdom plantae
clade angiosperms
clade monocots
order asparagales
family asparagaceae
subfamily asparagoideae
genus asparagus
Onions are now in the family Amarallydaceae, subfamily allioidaceae -- oh yes, order asparagales. And orchids are in asparagales, too. And brodiaeas and aloes and hyacinths and yucca trees and irises and day lilies and ixiolirions and a whole bunch of things from Australia.
What does liliaceae have left? Lilies: calochortus (pariposa lilies, or pussy ears),fritillaries, and tulips. And some other stuff I don't recognize. Liliales apparently has subdivisions labeled "tribes."
And I am sorry to say I got distracted and burned the asparagus soup. But the stir-fried asparagus is ready to be eaten tomorrow. It is sealed up and waiting to cool enough to be put into the fridge.
I also have a gift of too much broccoli and too much red cabbage but I swear I will fix it all up nice and eatable tomorrow so we can just eat off it for the week.
I cleaned up the sign of rat that was hiding behind the blender but now there is a javelin-poking party going on all over my face and scalp, so the young person will have to clean out behind the stove tomorrow.
edit: there is also a site called nudi-pixel which is primarily devoted to pictures of nudibranchs. I will not tell you why I need these, but rest assured it is a very trivial reason.