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Plant Names

A Guide to Botanical Nomenclature
By Roger Spencer and Rob Cross
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Plant Names by Roger Spencer and Rob Cross explores the complex world of botanical nomenclature, offering insights into the history, structure, and conventions of plant naming. The book delves into the scientific names that accurately classify and distinguish plants, providing an informative resource for botanical enthusiasts and professionals alike. Its comprehensive coverage makes it an essential reference for understanding the taxonomy and the universal language of plants.
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You might enjoy this book if you have a keen interest in botany, gardening, or horticulture. It provides a comprehensive look at the scientific and common names of plants, offering insights into their origins and meanings. This book may appeal to you if you're curious about the classification and taxonomy of plants.

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Plant Names

An introduction to the world of plant names and how to write, pronounce and remember them.

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Plant Names is an invaluable guide to the use of scientific, commercial, and common names for plants and the conventions for writing them. Written by horticultural botanists at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, this book covers the naming of wild plants, plants modified by humans, why plant names change, their pronunciation, and offers hints to help remember them. It includes updated sections on trademarks and plant breeder's rights.

The final section provides a detailed guide to resources useful to people using plant names.

This fourth edition is based on the recently updated International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi, and Plants and the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants. It makes this technical information readily understandable to a range of readers, including botanists, publishers, professional horticulturists, nursery workers, hobby gardeners, and anyone interested in plant names.

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Plant Names by Roger Spencer and Rob Cross is praised for its aesthetic appeal and informative content. Reviewers highlight the book's stunning photographs and the authors' expertise in Australian flora, making it both engaging and educational.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781486311446

Publisher: CSIRO Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 March 2020

Country: Australia

Imprint: CSIRO Publishing

Edition: Fourth Edition

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 148.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 350g

Pages: 168

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Rob Cross Roger Spencer Science & Nature

About the Author

Roger Spencer (BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, Cert, Gard.) is Senior Horticultural Botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria in the Plant Identification Service. He has written many popular and scientific articles on horticultural topics and books on Elms, Grey and Silver Foliage Plants, and a recent 5-volume Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Rob Cross (BSc, BAppSci(Hort)) is passionate about plants, their use and their conservation. He is a horticultural botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria where he deals with plant names on a daily basis, ensuring that plants in the Gardens’ Living Plant Collection have the current correct name applied to them. Rob has written scientific papers, a booklet on Japanese Flowering Cherries and contributed to other horticultural books.

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