Gardener's Botanical: An Encyclopedia of Latin Plant Names - with More Than 5 000 Entries

This is a guide to botanical Latin that provides definitions of over 5,000 plant names, along with 350 color illustrations.

Scientific plant names, formed from Greek and Latin root words, enable gardeners and botanists to communicate and contain hidden information. This guide offers an alphabetical list of botanical names with pronunciations, definitions, examples, and etymologies. Special features include plant genera, fact boxes, essays on Latin names and botanical illustrations, and an index of common names with over 2,000 popular plants, cross-referenced with their binomial names in Latin.

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