Plants, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 14(4), С. 552 - 552
Опубликована: Фев. 11, 2025
Gardening is a popular pastime for people from all walks of life in Yangon, the most populous city Myanmar and its former capital. The cultivation ornamental plants has continued uninterrupted despite decades social political crises that have plagued country, but there are indications people’s tastes changed considerably. These changing documented here through interviews nursery owners amateur gardeners Yangon. This study also investigates development naming patterns Burmese, particular names coined recently introduced plants. A total 176 older 156 newer (introduced over last two decades) grown Yangon were documented; category, 75% still available nurseries, whereas rest no longer popular. had significantly fewer unanalysable than plants, suggesting modern preference descriptive/allusive labels. applies to native, wild-harvested orchid species. Many newer, hybrids not been given Burmese names, only referred by shorthand labels like dendro vanda. provides first, linguistically informed ethnobiological report Myanmar.
Язык: Английский