Flower Power

My wife and I have caught the gardening bug, and so I took a couple days off of work so that we could totally relandscape our yard. We went to a huge nursery today and I was totally blown away. There were so many new words--bunches and bunches of flowers with names that are 7 and 8 letter words!

Luckily I had my Palm Pilot with me, so I could check the word judge. While we were browsing the selection I'd go "Wow! NANDINA is good!". As we passed by a dizzying array of azaleas I'd mention to my wife that AZALEAS has a funny looking alphagram: AAAELSZ. "The three As make it weird." "What if I get to play YAUPONS at the tournament this weekend. Wouldn't that be cool!" Eventually I had to put my Palm away and start concentrating on the plants' landscaping uses, so as not to totally annoy my wife.

I started The Elusive QUETZAL with a bird theme, because I found that there were a lot of bird names that were also bingos. But it may be that there are more plant names that are bingos.

One thing that I did realize is that there were a lot of plant names that were NOT acceptable. Perhaps that is due to the fact many plant names are regional, and so have a harder time making it into the dictionary. Or perhaps the Latin word hasn't made it into "common" usage.

Here's a brief (and by no means complete) list of cool plant names that I found are playable in the TWL:

AZALEA(S)
BOXWOOD(S)
CAMELIA(S) or CAMELLIA(S)
FOXGLOVE(S)
JUNIPER(S)
LANTANA(S)
LOBELIA(S)
NANDINA(S)
SALVIA(S)
SEDUM(S)
VERBENA(S)
YAUPON(S)
ZINNIA(S)

UPDATE:BEGONIA(S) and PHLOX(ES) are good words too.