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Quote from: Tropicalgrower89 on January 27, 2012, 12:58:00 PMQuote from: fruitlovers on January 27, 2012, 06:27:33 AMPS i love this species name "torta" because it means cake in spanish! You can have your cake and eat it too! Torta doesn't mean cake in all Latin American countries. For example, Cubans don't use the word Torta for cake. Back in the old days in Cuba, cakes were known as Pastel. Don't confuse that with pastelito cause it's something different. We use "torta" as a short slang/abbreviation for the word Tortillera, which means Lesbian. It's interesting, cause even though all latin American countries speak the same language, they all have different ways of speaking. A Spanish word could have different meanings, depending on what country from Latin America you're from.Spanish is my first language. Torta means cake in Spain and in all of spanish speaking South America. Pastel usually means pie, not cake. What you are saying about it meaning lesbian is purely slang, not official language. True every country has different slang.Oscar
Quote from: fruitlovers on January 27, 2012, 06:27:33 AMPS i love this species name "torta" because it means cake in spanish! You can have your cake and eat it too! Torta doesn't mean cake in all Latin American countries. For example, Cubans don't use the word Torta for cake. Back in the old days in Cuba, cakes were known as Pastel. Don't confuse that with pastelito cause it's something different. We use "torta" as a short slang/abbreviation for the word Tortillera, which means Lesbian. It's interesting, cause even though all latin American countries speak the same language, they all have different ways of speaking. A Spanish word could have different meanings, depending on what country from Latin America you're from.
PS i love this species name "torta" because it means cake in spanish! You can have your cake and eat it too!
I always found it hard to believe that Sapote de Mico was a subspecies of Pouteria torta, owing to major morphological divergence. Sure enough, the taxonomists at Flora do Brasil reclassified this as Pouteria gallifructa. Also the ssp. glabra has been defined as P. guianensis. Sure to spark disagreement...
yea a tall trunk which makes it a perfect canopy tree. Maybe with a bunch of TLC i can get it to 80 feet in 80 years