Talk:Night-blooming cereus

Spelling issues

I removed the claim that "cereus" is also spelled "sirius." It is not found on any botany webpages or books I can find, but only on personal webpages, which suggests that it is simply a common misspelling. Does anybody have good evidence otherwise? Meiruo (talk) 05:31, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Proposed move

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 17:56, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

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I propose we move this article title to Night-blooming cereus, over the redirect that is there now; and the currrent article title would then be changed to the redirect. This name is used as two separated words in books for example at a 50:1 ratio over the one-word version. I've already changed all the entries in the text of the article to two words, but I thought I should check for any objections before I did the article title. Any opposed? --Tom Hulse (talk) 20:25, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Nightblooming cereus → Night-blooming cereus – per WP:UCN (use common names). See comment above. —  AjaxSmack  21:33, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Support The Google ngram viewer shows clearly that "night-blooming" is considerably more common than "nightblooming", and that this is as true in American sources as in British ones, which is important, since British English tends to hyphenate more than American English. Peter coxhead (talk) 07:39, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Comment This is rather an odd article. I've tried to make some revisions to make it more accurate, but as originally written it reads as though "night-blooming cereus" was the name of a coherent group of plants, instead of the very confused English name for a substantial number of not very closely related species. I don't see that the material about dragonfruit has any place here at all; there's no intrinsic connection between the fact that some columnar and climbing cacti have large pale flowers which appear only at night and the fact that a kind of fruit is produced by one such cactus. Peter coxhead (talk) 14:58, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Support per Google ngram results. Hyphenation also appears to fall under the Manual of Style WP:HYPHEN point #3 (compound modifiers may be hyphenated). Plantdrew (talk) 16:55, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

• Support for reasons pointed out by Tom Hulse (I get a 30:1 ratio, but still...) and Plantdrew. Wilhelm Meis (☎ Diskuss | ✍ Beiträge) 02:09, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

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