DEAR GARDEN COACH: I enjoyed your article on plant adaptations; it got me thinking about something I recently discovered when looking for a plant called mock orange. There were two — Pittosporum ...

Passiflora incarnata, Nymphaea odorata, Chamaecrista fasciculata, Asclepius incarnata! Sounds like spells from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, doesn’t it? While these words could come ...

"This is a revised edition of A Gardener's dictionary of plant names, revised and enlarged in 1972 by William T. Stearn from A.W. Smith's A Gardener's book of plant names, 1963"--T.p. verso.

This native tree is known by several common names — among them, ‘black gum,’ ‘black tupelo,’ ‘sour gum’ and ‘tupelo’ — that vary by geographic region and association, illustrating the need for its ...

Often when we receive questions about a plant, all we're told is the plant’s common name. For most of our ornamental plants, that isn’t a problem, but when it comes to edible plants, figuring out the ...

Are you waiting for your snowdrops to bloom? Or do you prefer to call them Galanthus nivalis? “Nearly every kind of plant has more than one name,” said Julie Janoski, Plant Clinic manager at The ...

The neem plant is often called the "village pharmacy" in India, given its amazing healing powers. Ayurveda and other ...

For almost 300 years, researchers have classified life on Earth with scientific names — two-word monikers like Homo sapiens that become a kind of permanent label. But there are those who argue that ...

Columnist Mike Slater is on hiatus until May. Please enjoy this encore column from the Outside archive. he common, or English, names of plants and animals can be confusing. One name may be commonly ...

The rose is one of the most loved flowers in the world because of its intoxicating smell and beauty that everyone knows. It's ...