Why do this myself, if THE INTERNET can help?

[baratron]

Anyone want to make a bunch of sad Pokemon fans very happy?

The following list of letters contains the names of 7 plants: aabcDdeeeffhiiiiiiLlMnnoooooppprRSsttuVWxy

We want to know what those 7 plant names are.

Just to make this really fun, I don't know whether the names are plants in general, or specifically herbs, trees or flowers.

Some ideas could be:
flowers: cornflower, daffodil, daisy, hyacinth, iris, lily, orchid, ox-eye daisy, pansy, peony, poison ivy, primrose, rose, snowdrop, sunflower, sweet pea, tulip, violet

herbs: aloe, box, flax, saffron, thistle

trees: cedar, larch, pine

general: berry

So far the longest chain I have is: box, daisy, orchid, sunflower, violet and pine - but then I'm left with afiiMoppt, which isn't much of anything. What this really needs is either:

a) someone who is very good at anagrams and knows a lot of plant names to work this out in their Copious Free Time

or b) someone to put those letters into an anagram generator and tell it there are 7 words present, and let a computer find the answers - but all the anagram generators I've found online either only take up to 25 letter inputs, or they try to make up a phrase that means something, rather than just giving you 7 random words. Or they cost money :P

So if anyone is EXTREMELY bored... or just curious... you could definitely make some people happy by working it out :) Hell, look at me - I've sat up 2 hours past my bedtime trying to figure it out :/

Update: All worked out now - in a variety of European languages :) The Botany of Tanoby.

Comments

[hiddenpaw.livejournal.com]

Untill Sunday for Pokemon fans everywhere.

(There's an LJ Icon of it somewhere on the site.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

I was going to say what are you doing up at this hour, then I realised you might be working night shift or something. I'm up because I have been having a brain meltdown :/

That Pikachu reminds me a bit of the scary fat-faced kid (http://www.aseltine.com/rhee/) that User Friendly decided to link to (again) today. Not quite so cute'n'fwuffy as our little Pika. You will have to come & meet him :) Nonetheless, where will that strip live after the end of this week? Some people are slow, you see :)

[meirion.livejournal.com]

there are 7 capital letters, so perhaps those are the first letters of each of the plants?

-m-

[hiddenpaw.livejournal.com]

http://www.darkfurr.co.uk/2005/soa-05.html

[baratron.livejournal.com]

Ah, the 7 capital letters were from the names of the chambers:
Monean, Liptoo, Weepth, Dilford, Scufib, Rixy, Viapois.

Further thought is that they're incomplete anagrams (http://pokefor.greenchu.de/meowth346/archives/2005/02/07/the-botany-of-tanoby/comments/), which is interesting... and assuming that each word is a single name, you get:

Monean - Anemone
Liptoo - Tulip
Weepth - Sweet Pea (?)
Dilford - Daffodil
Scufib - Ficus (?)
Viapois - Poison Ivy

so the only question now is what is Rixy? Someone's suggested Pixy, but I'd never heard of a plant called that.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

This was my thought exactly, right down to "anemone" and "ficus". It seems like the proper type of problem compared to the Japanese version. I considered "beech" and "wheat" for Weepth. Am still stuck on Rixy.