Coma

While watching this YouTube video, Botanical Field trip at Saxon Park the other day, I came across this term, coma. So usually when I hear the term coma, I think of the definition as “a state of deep unconsciousness that lasts for a prolonged or indefinite period, caused especially by severe injury or illness.” This definition is Greek.

However in Latin it means hair! Can you see where this is going? Priscilla Crawford, Oklahoma Biological Survey Conservation Biologist was collecting milkweed seeds at the park. Priscilla was of course calling the split open seeds fluff, but in the subtext there was the term coma! Quick crack open the FNCT! And the definition is (a) a tuft of soft hairs or trichomes, as at the apices or bases of some seeds; (b) tuft of bracts projecting from the heads of some Eryngium species.

So now you are updated with the botanical terms for coma. FYI, I actually like term fluff better for the fluffy stuff.

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