It's Metridium, not Metridian

[Chuck Tribolet]

The big white cauliflowers are Metridium farcimen (used to be Metridium giganteum).
The little white cauliflowers (not common) are Metridium senile.

It's Metridium, not Metridian. It seems like all the newbs are learning the wrong spelling,
which screws up the search engines.

 

[Ben_ca]

It's Jim Ernst's fault....

 

[drbill]

It's like the new divers who learned from their instructors to call elk or elkhorn kelp (Pelagophycus porra) "bull kelp" or Nereocystis leutkeana (which is confined where it should be, north of Pt. Conception with you Norcal divers!). I constantly hear both instructors and divers refer to it that way.

Not quite as bad as the divers who followed me back to the steps at the dive park a few years ago and chewed me out for "chasing that SHARK in our direction." It was a giant sea bass.

 

[bbianchi]

Yea I screwed that one up. Too many people say it wrong too.

 

[fisheater]

Isn't Metridian the place where the urban chic go to watch movies South of Market?

 

[diversteve]

Fixed all posts in the NorCal forum for this 2008...thx.

 

[alibi 2]

Sorry, Chuck, but my spelling is always screwed up! If you can fix it my mother will love you forever!

 

[Chuck Tribolet]

Sorry, Chuck, but my spelling is always screwed up! If you can fix it my mother will love you forever!

Use Firefox and turn on the spelling checker.

 

[Coll]

It could always be worse. My girlfriend told me a story once about a guy bragging to his non-diver friends about the huge white mitochondria he saw!!! Now that is priceless.

 

[bbianchi]

I need the firefox marine animal dictionary