Re: plant names

**H* Y* <h*@gardeningwithconfidence.com>**

I agree with the "rules" here (with Peter's correction.) Another fine point I want to mention is that a period at the end of a sentence, following a cultivar name, is after the single quote....Acer japonicum 'Bloodgood'.

Helen

On Feb 25, 2013, at 1:31 PM, Peter Loewer wrote:

> 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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>> 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?
>>> 
>>> 
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