Black & White Speculation Contest - Week 2: The Professor

[Durbe]

Professor Juniper would be my guess.

 

[Thingamajig]

I guess I'll go with Professor Gum.

 

[Synthesis]

Professor Holly!

 

[☆TobyTse99☆]

I AM THE 10th ENTRY WHO SAY PINE!

アカマツ Japanese Red Pine to be specific, and just in case the first 9 people don't change their minds.

Reason... I said Tai Wan on the region speculation thread, and pine is quite common there... yeah.

 

[Spectre]

We're guessing their names, not their part in the story. :/

Professor Beech (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beech) because... just 'cause.

EDIT: Damnit V Faction beat me...

I'm going with Beech too, but only because it made me laugh because my Chemistry teacher is called Dr. Beech :')

 

[Aielyn]

I think that the Japanese name will translate roughly to "Professor Ebony", as a member of the Diospyros family of trees that are ebony or persimmon trees. As the origin of the name is more important than the sound of the name itself, I'll avoid providing an explicit japanese name.

Although not part of my guess, I expect the English name to be Professor Myrtle, as a reference to Diospyros pentamera, or Myrtle Ebony.

 

[swizzle]

I think it'll be something like Professor Ambrosia. Ambrosia
I think this because each of the professors have been somewhat obscure plants, but plants that many people still know of, and I believe ambrosia is similar to that.

 

[Advance]

Prof. Evergreen? I dunno , I'm not gonna guess.:-/

 

[Seviper]

I think the name form the Professor could derive from Privet (Ligustrum), according to Wikipedia the Genus in Japanese is something like Ibotanoki.

 

[Pidgeot]

I'd say Professor Bark, after the bark of a tree.

 

[Sora246]

I say let's wait and see, and I do think we're in for a female professor though.

 

[Terra Force]

I think that the Japanese name will translate roughly to "Professor Ebony", as a member of the Diospyros family of trees that are ebony or persimmon trees. As the origin of the name is more important than the sound of the name itself, I'll avoid providing an explicit japanese name.

Although not part of my guess, I expect the English name to be Professor Myrtle, as a reference to Diospyros pentamera, or Myrtle Ebony.

Ebony? Will it be the first time a black person would be important in a mainstream Pokemon game?

 

[spriteless]

Professor Toadstool, obviously. Well, probably not. It would be a neat crossover, but the Pokemon Company is sort of seperate from Nintendo, thus it is unlikely.

 

[clueless1]

As all of the earlier prof. names are easily recognizable, I think Professor Spruce would be the name.

 

[pokemonfan08]

I chose the dog wood tree simply because its my favorite tree. the name I'm go with is Professor Kousa, taken from the Kousa Dogwood(The Japanese Flowering Dogwood). The named translated to english could be like Professor Dogwood. I'm sure i made a good choice with Professor Kousa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kousa_Dogwood

 

[purple7q]

prof. boxwood (female)

 

[tacotaskforce]

Ebony? Will it be the first time a black person would be important in a mainstream Pokemon game?

Has there even been any black people in any pokemon game? I can't think of any besides Jynx

 

[tarviti73]

i gotta say proffersor tsubaki or something relateing to an orchid

 

[Starrk]

After hitting the random page button on Wikipedia until I got a plant, I'm going to go with this...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notobasis

Professor Notobasis/Thistle

 

[Apolloman3579]

prof.Yew