What am I missing about plants database?

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Aimee Georgetown, TX(Zone 8a) Apr 10, 2002

I typed in Passiflora caerulea, and it brought back a report that nothing was found in the database, then listed the Passifloras, including this one spelled exactly the way I entered it. I then tried a few others and all did the same thing. Without a lot of technical knowledge, I can't understand why it tells me it doesn't have it and then asks me did I mean the same thing in a list of others.

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Joan Belfield, ND(Zone 4a) Apr 10, 2002

I've noticed that too Aimee. At first I thought I had spelled it wrong.

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Weezingreens Seward, AK(Zone 3b) Apr 13, 2002

Yes, Philomel and I noticed the same thing, but I just click on the suggested plant that is exactly what I typed in and the database site appears. Just figured it was some quirk in the use of caps, etc, but it can be spelled and spaced exactly the same and it always wants to correct me. I guess I just figured it was a funny little quirk.

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Terry Murfreesboro, TN(Zone 7a) Apr 13, 2002

It is a quirk, and I'm sure Dave can fix it now that he knows about it :) I suspect it's in the fairly new logic that looks for close matches, which is pretty handy (used to be if you didn't spell it exactly the same way it was in the database, you were out of luck.)

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Weezingreens Seward, AK(Zone 3b) Apr 13, 2002

It's funny, but I noticed it quite a while ago and just didn't mention it. At first, I felt afronted that I had been corrected unnecessarily, but then it seemed so "human" that I just accepted it as a bad habit by a dear friend. I guess I must need to feel that everything in the Garden breathes!

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Joan Belfield, ND(Zone 4a) Apr 13, 2002

I've kind of come to like it actually. Sometimes it gives me a list of things I might have meant, and that just gives me more options to explore that I hadn't thought of.

It probably should be fixed though, so we don't all think we can't spell.

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