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- Plant and Gardening FAQ - New York Botanical Garden
The Royal Horticultural Society (U K ) recommends that family names be italicized Plant labels in botanical gardens usually have the family name in capital letters, for instance PINACEAE Common names: There are no rules governing common names but it is standard usage to write the names in lower case (except for proper nouns) and to use Roman
- Plant and Gardening FAQ
Royal Horticultural Society Recommended Style for Printing Plant Names International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants Help Me Find Rose Search is a good resource if you know only the trade name for a rose and need to know if there is also a breeder's registered cultivar name Courtesy of NYBG Plant Information Service
- Plant and Gardening FAQ - New York Botanical Garden
The less official designation of an “orchid alliance” is a group of closely related plants, at any taxonomic rank, but usually at the rank of genus or species Orchids can bear perplexing names with unusual naming conventions, causing some confusion among enthusiasts Here are the basics of understanding an orchid's name
- Plant and Gardening FAQ - New York Botanical Garden
B pauciflora is known by many common names - yesterday-today-and-tomorrow, morning-noon-and-night, kiss me quick, and Brazil raintree The first two names refer to the observation that the flowers change color over time (They open deep purple, fade to lavender the next day and finally to white )
- Plant and Gardening FAQ - New York Botanical Garden
Other common names for boneset are feverwort, sweat plant, and thoroughwort The Native American name for boneset translates into ague-weed (ague is the name for malarial fever) Historically, boneset was commonly included in medical herb gardens and used as a folk medicine for treatment of flus, fevers, colds and a variety of other maladies
- Plant and Gardening FAQ - New York Botanical Garden
Corn plant, also called cornstalk or mass plant (Dracaena fragrans 'Massangeana') is a flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family, originating from tropical Africa Its common name comes from the resemblance of the main stalk to a corn plant It is a popular houseplant as it is easy to grow and is tolerant of neglect
- How do you read plant labels at NYBG? - NYBG Mertz Library Reference
Cultivar name -- If the plant is a cultivated variety (i e developed by a gardener) then this will be indicated in single quotes Or the name given to the cultivar by the developer will be given If the plant is a hybrid then the name will have an “x” and some indication of the parents of the hybrid
- Plant and Gardening FAQ - libanswers. nybg. org
It is often difficult to distinguish female flowers from male flowers without a hand lens However, the sex of the plant should be indicated on the nursery label Sometimes female and male plants will have different cultivar names, e g ‘China Boy’ and ‘China Girl’ hollies Here are some of the more common dioecious shrubs
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