EDIT: From Korean, not Chinese, sorry!
I have a nice (in my humble opinion!) H. (truncata var.) maughanii cv in my collection sold to me as 'Kong Men', which I managed to track to 空門 -> Kōngmén -> ("westernised as") Kuomon -> (further "westernisation" to) Kong Men, and was pointed to the following article:
https://m.blog.daum.net/ckdrbtnr/826
Unfortunately all the details are totally incomprehensible from Google's translation: https://translate.google.com/translate? ... drbtnr/826, so I am looking for a little help in making it more human friendly.
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Re: A little help with translation from Chinese needed (Haworthia 空門 (Kōngmén))
Kūmon the gate of emptiness, one of the sanmon (three gates):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanmon
Collect two more varieties and you should achieve satori.
That article is in Korean.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanmon
Collect two more varieties and you should achieve satori.
That article is in Korean.
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Re: A little help with translation from Chinese needed (Haworthia 空門 (Kōngmén))
A little brain fart moment, even the translator says it's in Korean... Thank you for correction and information, relabelling to "H. truncata var. maughanii '空門' (jp. 'Kūmon', en. 'Gate of Emptiness')" - much better than "empty door" ![Mr. Green :mrgreen:](./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif)
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Re: A little help with translation from Chinese needed (Haworthia 空門 (Kōngmén))
Smashing plants whatever!
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Re: A little help with translation from Chinese needed (Haworthia 空門 (Kōngmén))
Thank you on behalf of my now H. truncata var. maughanii '空門' (jp. 'Kūmon', en. 'Gate of Emptiness') (I need to buy a label printer...).
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Re: A little help with translation from Chinese needed (Haworthia 空門 (Kōngmén))
The Maughanii cultivar with a completely clear window is usually seen as 'Lens', there's a lot of names around for Maughanii and Truncata forms depending which country they come from.
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Re: A little help with translation from Chinese needed (Haworthia 空門 (Kōngmén))
Yes! The "Lenses" are quite popular, e.g. 'Hakugi Lens' ("Tin foil"?
) https://www.succulent-tissue-culture.co ... hp?id=1010 or 'Murasaki/Purple Lens' https://www.succulent-tissue-culture.co ... hp?id=1052 , and mine might the same as the former, but isn't the name on mine much more dignified?!
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