Talk:Durio graveolens

Impossible "Southern Thai"
"ริะกกะ" is not a possible morphological combination of Thai script. This is a misspelling which appears nowhere outside of Wikipedia, and I have pretty much no idea what it's supposed to be in Thai. Awkwafaba, could you please check this? --Paul_012 (talk) 19:58, 3 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Okay, I did a bit more digging and it appears the Thai common names of these durian species are a confused mess. D. graveolens is listed in the Horticultural Science Society of Thailand's website as ทุเรียนแดง (, 'red durian'), but on the Forest Herbarium website of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, as well as this book also by the Forest Herbarium, it's listed as ทุเรียนรากเขา (thurian rak khao 'mountain-root durian'), which is close but a different word from ทุเรียนรากขา (thurian rak kha 'legged-root durian'), which is probably what the cited sources were trying to say, and which appears in a different section of the Forest Herbarium website, which is cited by the Thai Wikipedia. On the other hand, however, this horticultural study digitised by the Kasetsart University's Kamphaeng Saen Campus library has D. graveolens as ทุเรียนขั้วติด (thurian khua tit, 'attached-stem durian'), and instead attributes the name thurian rak kha to D. kutejensis. So does this master's thesis from Prince of Songkla University and this article from Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University's Advance Science Journal, as well as this article from the Thai Agricultural Research Journal. I've removed the obviously incorrect "ริะกกะ" from the article. But should the (Southern) Thai common name be retained in the article at all, given the contradicting information in the sources? --Paul_012 (talk) 20:46, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
 * thank you for diving into this. Common names are usually problematic to some ° or another.  I don’t speak Thai so I didn’t notice the typo.  I think the article should say roughly what you said.  The species has those names in Thai, but some refer to other species as well.  Those sources all seem reliable, and readers searching for a common name may be thinking of either species, or not know that the term is ambiguous.  I find it’s best to show the contradictions to the readers, as some editors consider deciding one over the other as original research.  --awkwafaba (📥) 16:25, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

"ทุเรียน-ริะกกะ" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect ทุเรียน-ริะกกะ. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 May 3 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Paul_012 (talk) 20:47, 3 May 2020 (UTC)