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CPC Plant Profile - National Collection of Endangered Plants
... water during the last ice age. Mountain flora isolated in this habitat could not interbreed with other populations, and eventually evolved into its own distinct taxa. Isolated high in the Olympic ... enough to become its own species if it continues to be isolated and cannot interbreed with other populations of A. australis (Schreiner et al. 1994). Distribution & Occurrence Top State Range Washington ...
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Canary Islands Glossary
... certain time and able to interbreed. Prostrate = Laying flat on ground. Proteolytic enzyme = Organic substance with protein origin favouring the ... said of an organ with a large base and widening at the ends. Speciation = Process of diversification to which populations go through ... its opening. Variety = Individual or group usually fertile with any other member of the species to which it belongs but ...
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Plant Evaluation at the Chicago Botanic Garden - Glossary
... strain of a plant produced by horticultural techniques and not normally found in wild populations; a cultivar name is written after the scientific name, usually marked by single quotation ... of Linnaean classification; a taxonomic subdivision of genus represented by plants that can freely interbreed but rarely with other species. In the scientific name Sambucus nigra, the genus is Sambucus and the ...
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Floridata: What's In a (Plant) Name?
... unit of all life - is the species. Members of a species can interbreed with each other but not with members of other species. The botanical name of a species has two words. The first, always ... north of Florida.) A botanical variety is a distinguishable variant which occurs in the same populations as ordinary examples of a species. Variety names are written in italics, and preceded by ...
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Species & Cultivars
... like Hosta. Biological species are defined as populations of similar individuals, alike in structural and functional characteristics, which in nature breed only with each other, and which have a common heritage (i.e., they are genetically closely related). Hosta species can and do interbreed (in most cases) resulting in populations that ...
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Botanical Garden | Plant Classification
... groups of characteristics that are not found in other families.  Although family names - Rosaceae (rose family), Liliaceae (lily ... a species do not usually interbreed successfully with members of a different species.  Species names begin with lower-case letters.  Subspecies, ... the variety and subspecies have developed naturallyin plant populations over scores of generations. DRIED FLOWER SALE AT ...
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Royal Horticultural Society - RHS Plant Finder: The Naming of Plants
... names identify them precisely and reveal their relatedness. With no other point of reference, the common names chosen ... populations become geographically isolated. Such populations are often distinguished as subspecies (abbreviated to subsp. or occasionally ssp. but this can easily be confused with ... in the wild or in gardens, are found to interbreed. The resulting offspring are known as hybrids and ...
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