Talk:Plumbago

Latin name meaning?
From what I can recall from college, "Plumbago" refers to the blue flowers, not a cure for lead poisoning (lead poisoning was not known of until much more recently!) SB Johnny 16:36, 13 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I wondered about that, too. This article is likely the source of that information.  I've also found other references to "Plumbago" as being a term for "Blacklead."  I don't know what the ultimate source of that information is...  I'll do some digging and see what else I find.  Thanks for bringing this up!  -Rkitko 00:59, 14 June 2006 (UTC)


 * OED derives the name from the colour of the flowers, but as the name dates back to Classical Latin at least, that may be uncertain. The lead poisoning cure may be a later idea, perhaps developed from the doctrine of signatures - MPF 11:38, 14 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I won't be spending time looking this us, but lead has been historically used to make blue in alchemy, etc. SB Johnny 11:43, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

This article should be linked with the wikipedia article for Ceratostigma. 67.76.32.10 16:32, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Usage
Food Plant of Zebra Blue butterfly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Arundhati.mhatre (talk • contribs) 09:23, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

According to most existing articles on butterflies in the genus Leptotes, Plumbago species, along with various Fabaceae, are food plants for the caterpillars. If this is true for the entire genus, it might be worth mentioning in an ecology section in this article. Otherwise, their usage as a food plant by a few Leptotes species wouldn't be particularly notable.--TDogg310 (talk) 17:01, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

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