Re: plant names

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Denise: The culivar name is not in quotation marks but single quotes and it 
never has an internal comma or any other punctuation. Peter
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From: "Edible flowers" <edibleflowers1@aol.com>
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Subject: Re: [GWL] plant names


> You should write it Japanese maple or Acer japonicum "Bloodgood"
> Genus is capitalized and species is lower case. Cultivar is in quotation 
> marks and first letter is capitalized.
> Denise
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Feb 25, 2013, at 7:51 AM, Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp 
> <hoosiergardener@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> I have a question about common names. Think print, in newspapers and 
>> magazines, most of which have an aversion to too much fancy stuff in 
>> text:
>>
>> Should common names be capitalized, such as Lilac or Sweet Potato Vine? I 
>> say no, because these are not proper names.
>>
>> Next, what if you are writing about Hosta or other plants, where the 
>> scientific and a common name are the same. Should all hosta, petunia, 
>> impatiens, etc., references as a common names be cap or cap and Italics 
>> or can they be lower case?
>>
>>
>> jems
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