Gladiolus communis — Updates

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    Mike Waldrep commented on "Gladiolus communis L.":

    Beautiful!

    over 1 year ago

  • Profile picture of lenette barker who took this action.

    lenette barker commented on "Gladiolus communis L.":

    I was very excited about the EOL when it first began. However, I thought it would be something that could be accessible by the general public as well as the scientific community. Unfortunately, if this page is any indication, one needs a graduate degree to even figure out what the life form in question is. One would think that 'general description' would be the place where the 'general' public could read about the item, learn its common name - in short, learn what it IS. on this page though, there is only scientific gobbledegook. I am not a stupid person, but when i see terms like 'tunic coriaceous, ' or 'perianth tube obliquely funnel-shaped,' I just turn off. Is this a flower? a shrub? an alien creature? Who knows? Not me, and the EOL is apparently fine with that. imagine a high school or college student trying to write a paper about the other inhabitants of the world. They're going to go to wikipedia, like i am. I want to LEARN about life, but all I'm learning on your site is how much i DON'T know. Surely your contributing experts could use layman's terms in the 'general description' area. Instead it seems as though they (or this contributor anyway) is more interested in impressing the rest of us with his/her exceptional intelligence. Apparently the definition of 'encyclopedia' being used on your site is not 'A work that provides broad, comprehensive coverage of an area or topic' but rather 'a reference work ' designed solely for a post-graduate readership. I am disappointed beyond words. (I can't even tell what this thing is from the pictures, for crying out loud. If it's a flower that grows on this planet,it's the only one i've ever seen that has no stamen or pistil, or even a means of support. Between the picture and the description I have no better understanding of this thing than i did before i opened the page. Only a professional botanist could make heads or tails of this 'information' and they probably already know it anyway. So just who is EOL for?) Disappointedly yours, Lenette Barker

    over 2 years ago

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