Tulunk Village

Have you ever noticed that in the Japanese version of Pokémon, just about all the Gym Leaders are named after plants (at least from Generation III on)? I know it's probably just a coincidence and most likely has nothing to do with certain members of the Telefang staff going to work for Game Freak, but it's still something interesting to note. If you can read Japanese, compare the similarities... Kamitsure even looks a little like a chamomile flower to me, but that may just be my imagination. XD

In Generation III, we have:

• Tsutsuji.
• Touki.
• Tessen (there's one Telefang fans should recognise XD).
• Senri (possibly).
• Nagi.
• Fu and Lan (I only suspected these were flowers because I'd looked up 'lan' before).
• Mikuri and Adan.

In Generation IV:

• Natane.
• Sumomo.
• Melissa.
• Tougan.
• Suzuna.

In Generation V:

• Pod, Dent, and Corn.
• Aloe.
• Arti[choke].
• Kamitsure.
• Yacón.
• Fuuro.
• Hachiku.
• Iris and Shaga.

Any comments on this?

Here's all the ones I could find of first and second gen:

Gen 1

Katsura: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cercidiphyllum
Natsumi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujube ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natsume_%28disambiguation%29 )
Anzu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzu
Sakaki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakaki

Gen 2

Tsukushi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equisetum ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukushi )
Mikan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satsuma_%28fruit%29

And here are the remaining ones:

Gen I:

• Erika (Erica)
• Matis
• Kyou

(Yeah, I'm aware those last two may be a bit of a stretch.)

Gen II:

• Akane
• Matsuba (possibly)
• Yanagi
• Ibuki

It looks like they may have been doing the plant thing from the very beginning... Interesting.