Chile-Heads Digest wrote: > Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:10:58 -0800 > From: Brent Thompson <brent@hplbct.hpl.hp.com> > Subject: Re: [CH] Re: Rare Chiles; Greetings to all CHers > > > I've grown both Mirasol and Guajillo chiles, and both point down! > > You've been cheated. Mirasol is specifically listed in the literature as > "pointing toward the sun"; they are supposed to be pointing upwards when > mature (and I think even the name roughly translates to mean this). > Si, si, seņor; kinda smoothly, actually: =^] "mirar" = to look; "mira" is present tense. "sol," of course, = sun. --> mirasol = looks at the sun. Kinda like "parasol" i.e. sunshade in form of umbrella: in Spanish, parar = "to stop," para being the present tense. Enough, or I turn into Cheers' Cliff Claven. Jesse G. el bilingue jguad1@mer.cioe.com