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  2. Persea - Wikipedia

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    Persea americana flowers. The species of Persea have a disjunct distribution, with about 70 Neotropical species, ranging from Brazil and Chile in South America to Central America and Mexico, the Caribbean, and the southeastern United States; a single species, P. indica, endemic to Madeira and the Canary Islands off northwest Africa; and 80 species inhabiting east and southeast Asia.

  3. List of plant genus names with etymologies (A–C) - Wikipedia

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    Abies ← [a] Abronia ← Acacia ← Acanthus ← Actinidia ← Actinotus ← Aerangis ← Aeranthes ← Aerides ← Aeschynanthus ← Agalmyla ← Agastache ← Agrostemma ← Aichryson ← Alloplectus ← Alopecurus ← Alphitonia ← Ammocharis ← Ammophila ← Androstephium ← Anemone ← Angophora ← Antirrhinum ← Aphyllanthes ← Archontophoenix ← Arctostaphylos ← Ardisia ← ...

  4. Avocado - Wikipedia

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    Avocado blossoms sprout from racemes near the leaf axils; they are small and inconspicuous 5–10 mm (3 ⁄ 16 – 3 ⁄ 8 in) wide. They have no petals but instead two whorls of three pale-green or greenish-yellow downy perianth lobes, each blossom has 9 stamens with 2 basal orange nectar glands. [20] [4] Avocado flower Pollen grains of avocado

  5. Glossary of botanical terms - Wikipedia

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    Cultivar names are written with single quotation marks around them, e.g. 'Blue Carpet' or 'Alba'. All new names established after 1 January 1959 must be in common language (that is, not in Latin), but names established in Latin prior to this date are retained in Latin form. cultivar epithet The defining part of a name that denominates a cultivar.

  6. List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names

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    Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for dog). These words may not be included in the table below if they only occur for one or two taxa. Instead, the words listed below are the common adjectives and other modifiers that repeatedly occur in the scientific names of ...

  7. How to Make an Avocado Rose - AOL

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    Our Test Kitchen will you how to make avocado flowers right at home. The post How to Make an Avocado Rose appeared first on Taste of Home. Avocado roses are all over food blogs and Instagram, but ...

  8. List of plants by common name - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of plants organized by their common names. However, the common names of plants often vary from region to region, which is why most plant encyclopedias refer to plants using their scientific names , in other words using binomials or "Latin" names.

  9. Botanical Latin - Wikipedia

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    Latin names of organisms are generally used in English without alteration, but some informal derivatives are used as common names. For example, the -idae ending of subclass names is changed to -ids (e.g., Rosidae produces rosids); the subfamily ending -oideae is changed to -oids (e.g., Papilionoideae produces papilionoids).