How Colors Got Their Names

A fascinating look at the anthropology of color terms.  Before you watch the video, what do you suppose the first three color names were?

Rainbow Trees

Discovered by your Head Trucker while surfing the 'net:  A curious form of eucalyptus, used most often for pulpwood production in the Phillippines.  It sheds pieces of its bark at different times, revealing first a bright green inner bark, which later turns to blue, purple, orange, and maroon.  How pretty.

Color My World

Just thinkin':  What if somebody said green is the color of growing things, therefore green is the only natural color, no others allowed.  I mean, green is very nice and all, but . . . wouldn't that be a kind of tunnel vision?