Cultivar
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A cultivar is a kind of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and which retains those traits when propagated. Methods used to propagate cultivars include division, root and ste
Osteospermum 'Pink Whirls' A cultivar selected for its brightly coloured flowers with unusual fluted petal structure
Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954) coined the words cultigen in 1918 and cultivar in 1923.
Bread wheat, Triticum aestivum, is considered a cultigen, and is a distinct species from other wheats according to the biological species concept. Many different cultivars have been created within this cultigen. Many other cultigens are not considered to be distinct species, and can be denominated otherwise.
A cultivar of the orchid genus Oncidium
Rose
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A rose is either a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus Rosa, in the family Rosaceae, or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred species and tens of thousands of cultivars. The plant
Cultivar
…as cultivars. Horticulturists generally believe the word cultivar was coined as a term meaning "cultivated variety". Popular ornamental plants like roses, camellias, daffodils, rhododendrons, and azaleas are commonly cultivars produced by breeding and selection or as sports, for floral colour or size…
Rosa rubiginosa 1
Rosa Precious platinum
Rose thorns
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