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.jpg) A cultivar selected for its intriguing and colourful flowers |
A cultivar is a plant or grouping of plants selected for desirable characteristics that can be maintained by propagation. Most cultivars have arisen in cultivation but a few are special selections from the wild. Popular ornamental garden plants like roses, camellias, daffodils, rhododendrons, and azaleas are cultivars produced by careful breeding and selection for flower colour and form. Similarly, the world's agricultural food crops are almost exclusively cultivars that have been selected for characteristics such as improved yield, flavour, and resistance to disease: very few wild plants are now used as food sources. Trees used in forestry are also special selections grown for their enhanced quality and yield of timber.
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- Related: Plant variety (law), Variety (botany)
| International Cultivar Registration Authorities International Cultivar Registration Authorities www.ishs.org/sci/icralist/icralist.htm - Web |
| The Language of Horticulture The Language of Horticulture www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/hcs/TMI/HORT234/Nomenclature.html - Web |
| Opinion piece by Tony Lord Opinion piece by Tony Lord www.rhs.org.uk/learning/publications/plantsman/0605/opinion.asp - Web |
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| Hortivar - The Food and Agriculture Organization o... Hortivar - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Horticulture Cultivars Performance Database www.fao.org/hortivar - Web |
| UPOV Homepage UPOV Homepage www.upov.int/index.html - Web |
