This is my post for #freewriters 2265 prompt epicalyx hosted by @mariannewest
Last year I was walking along the river and saw an old hibiscus plant, I knew that when I was a child there was an old green colored house there. I took some cutting from the plant so I could give it new life.
I took the cutting home and clipped off the part where I broke it from the plant. I put some soil in a one gallon pot and set it in the shady part of our weed mat where we have our garden.
I let it root and once I saw I could pull it from the pot without the soil breaking apart, I planted it by our front gate.
This is the plant this year, it does not have many flowers right now. They are not the type of hibiscus that opens into a beautiful flower but it is still beautiful to me. They call it a Turks Cap Hibiscus and I am guessing the small leaves at the base of the flower are the epicalyx. To tell the truth, I had no clue as to what this prompt meant or how to pronounce it. I still can not pronounce it I try to say EPIC-AL-??, How do you say YZ? I came up with yiz. So it would be EPIC-AL-YIZ, I still can not say it. Can you?
This is my Red Hot Hibiscus, I do not know which one I prefer, maybe I will plant this one next to the Turks Cap.
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I'm guessing EP-ih-KAL-icks on the pronunciation. If I recall correctly (and I may not) the calyx is the cluster of green petal-like leaft green bits at the base of the glower, and the epi- prefix usually means something like "on," or "over." So the second layer of green leafy-bits are probably the epicalyx like you guessed. I welcome correction from anyone more versed in botany.
I am not arguing your pronunciation, but how in God's green earth does that match the spelling?
Greek origins.
Prefix epi-
Root word calyx, emphasis typically on the first syllable cal- followed by y as a short i vowel sound, and x as a hard -cks consonant like exit instead of being slurred into a z sound like xylophone.
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Thank you, that is a good explanation, I still have trouble with yx, xy as in xylophone makes more sense to me, but it is what it is.