The categories of 'rare'
Rare: the most used and abused word since the plantdemic began. Bestowed on plants secretly and not-so-secretly multiplied by the hundreds, even thousands, and branded as such to capture the imagination- and the pockets' contents- of a burgeoning market whose passion for decorative vegetables began only during the government lockdowns imposed around the world. To this day, two years hence, the P.T. Barnums of the aroid craze still use the word as a marketing ploy and echoed by automatons who are under the impression that the word 'rare' is interchangeable with the term 'ridiculously expensive'. To be fair, there are indeed 'rare plants' in every sense of the term. However, this does not include the "a plant is rare because you can't afford it" line of reasoning. That's stupid. If that is your mindset, then perhaps I can entice you to some bit of illumination and make your notochord ancestors proud. They have, after all, spent many milli