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They may seem opaque to most of us moderns who know no Latin or Greek, but the botanical names of plants often translate into crystal-clear descriptive terms. Knowing what they mean can, in a few ...

Latin names were given at the time as an internationally understood language to identify all known plants. While this form of naming plants is good for people who are interested in botany and ...

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DEAR GARDEN COACH: I enjoyed your article on plant adaptations; it got me thinking about something I recently discovered when looking for a plant called mock orange. There were two — Pittosporum ...

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Plant nomenclature, or the naming of plants, has been around since 1753, and started with a Swedish botanist named Carl Von Linne. Latin names were given at the time as an internationally understood ...