Have you met Phil A. Dendrom?

[muckefuck]

So maybe I go on too much about bad spelling, but sometimes I find it simply baffling. I mean, I understand that anyone can have a bad day (like rollick with her recent Brauhaus post) and that it's difficult to look up a word if you've never seen it written, only heard it, or to remember the spelling of a word in a language you don't speak. However, how do you explain this sign on a plant in the staff lounge:

VARIEGATED PHILADENDROM
(Philodendron scandens)

Now, setting aside for a moment the fact that the plant is decidedly not a member of the Philodendron genus (as we learned from last year's plant quiz, it's actually an Epipremnum aureum, also known as a "pothos"), how does it escape the person typing up the card that there might be a connexion of some sort between the scientific name and the popular? And how did they find (and correctly spell) the former when they so badly munged the latter?

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people don't take much pride in their work anymore.