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Varieties, Hybrids, Sports, and Cultivars

Varieties, Hybrids, Sports, and Cultivars

General, Plant Information, Taxonomy

Yews (genus Taxus) provide good illustrations of the rules for scientific notation of cultivated plant names. I hope trying to sort nomenclature out for the reader will help me get it straight in my own mind. Gardeners have grown forms of the long-lived English yew,...

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