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Names Have Roots

Names Have Roots

Von: Phil Achleman
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Hundreds of hoyas carry a person's name. A collector, a botanist, a grower in a beach suburb who found something nobody had seen. Others carry nothing but a number and three letters that nobody can account for anymore. The people behind both are mostly gone, and mostly unrecorded.

Phil Achleman grows hoyas in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Each episode takes one species name apart and follows it back to the person underneath it, through the original description, the herbarium sheet, the obituary. Sometimes the record holds. Sometimes it falls apart in your hands, and that turns out to be the more interesting story.

If you know something that isn't written down anywhere, this show wants it.

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  • Hoya clemensiorum: The Rooted Wanderers

    Hoya clemensiorum: The Rooted Wanderers
    Sep 22 2026

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    Hoya clemensiorum is named for two people, not one. Joseph Clemens was an Army chaplain who followed his wife Mary into the field, from Hawaii to the Philippines to China to British North Borneo. When he died on a jungle trail in New Guinea in 1936, Mary wrote it down on a herbarium label and kept collecting alone, adding roughly fourteen thousand more specimens before she was done. This episode is their story, and how a hoya lost its name and got it back.

    Full writeup at gatheringmoss.shop/blogs/hoya-names/hoya-clemensiorum-the-rooted-wanderers
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    18 Min.
  • Hoya Meredithii: Roots of Controversy

    Hoya Meredithii: Roots of Controversy
    Sep 16 2026

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    Updated September 2026: an earlier version of this episode included a quote I could not verify. It has been corrected, and the audio above is the fixed version. The plant's story turned out to be better than the first draft anyway.

    Hoya meredithii was named in 1988 for York Meredith, a plantsman of Dee Why, New South Wales. Nobody had ever pulled together his full story before, and there is a real, credentialed challenge to the plant's own name that it stood up to.

    Full written version, with sources: https://gatheringmoss.shop/blogs/hoya-names/the-plantsman-of-dee-why
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    9 Min.
  • Prologue

    Prologue
    Sep 16 2026

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    Why am I doing this?
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    3 Min.
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