Talk:Cosmos (plant)

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I was unfamiliar with the name before coming to Korea from the US and Europe. Here it is a commonly seen roadside flower, motly white and lilac in color, growing on long stalks, with the slender stalks joining about six to twelve inches down, one at a time, cumulating maybe 2-5? individual flowers.

Amazing Cosmos Picture

Someone should upload this [1] picture and add it to this article, because it is a stunning photo. Before all of you start talking about copyright issues, it clearly states on page 8 of the photographer's page [2] (on which the picture is displayed) that, "© This photo is public." He does want to be credited, as stated on Creative Commons liscenses for other pictures of his. I would do this myself, but I don't know how. Nauticashades 15:35, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The picture isn't usable here unless explicit permission from the author is given. "Public" simply means it's publicly viewable, the image isn't licensed under any permissive, free license compatible with Wikipedia. Samuel Grant 18:42, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is also the second anniversary Flower for wedding anniversarys.

Cosmos in South Africa

I'm looking for a source to the claim that the Cosmo arrived in southern Africa due to contaminated horse feed from Argentina during the Anglo-Boer war. The claim seems so specific that there must be a source but no matter where I look online I only see nearly direct quotations of this page or the occasional claim that it came from Mexico. Any ideas? dkallen78 16:30, 2 January, 2021 (UTC)

You may be right, and a quick web look doesn't reveal anything for me. This claim was added on 14 September 2013‎ by a one-edit IP address. Anything on the web after this date is probably referencing this article. I've added a citation needed tag... if nothing is forthcoming in the next month I'll remove the text, if nobody else does it before. Acabashi (talk) 17:35, 2 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi dkallen78, I have not forgotten abut this (you left a message for me on my page). Acabashi I have found a number of sources, but have not had the time to fully explore. One of them says exactly what the article says, but with Mexico instead of Argentina as the origin of the feed. I will go through the info I have in the next few days. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 16:41, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I found a source from before 2013. I will update the article. The book asserts that Cosmos are native to Argentina but doesn't say that the horse feed was imported from there. I have found evidence that Cosmos were growing wild in India in the 19th century and it's possible that the British got their horse feed from there.Dkallen78 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 21:44, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nice. Do you have a page number for the Churchill book? Acabashi (talk) 23:36, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No! It was a Google Books find and none of the pages were numbered. There should be a link in the citation I left. Dkallen78 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 19:29, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Strange that the 2009 Chasing Churchill book is not page numbered. Presumably you searched and found the full or partial online Google text, complete with its useful yellow highlighted words... the link to that will do, even if the link is probably very long. A book as cited is likely to be challenged. Acabashi (talk) 20:43, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tautology

A genus is (as any other taxon), a grouping of plants with the same common name by definition so to to state that "Cosmos is a genus, with the same common name of cosmos" is repeating oneself and incorrect by implication as there is no such thing as a genus without the same common name. It would be more efficient to simply say "Cosmos is a genus of flowering plants within the sunflower family" If one wanted to clarify to a non expert reader that a genus is a grouping, this could be done by creating a hyperlink of the word genus to the wikipedia article concerning the nature of a genus. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.9.195.168 (talk) 19:58, 6 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]