• A cultigen (from Latin cultus 'cultivated', and gens 'kind'), or cultivated plant, is a plant that has been deliberately altered or selected by humans...
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    Cultivar (section Cultigens)
    Cultivars form a major part of Liberty Hyde Bailey's broader group, the cultigen, which is defined as a plant whose origin or selection is primarily due...
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    practice of the science that identifies, describes, classifies, and names cultigens—those plants whose origin or selection is primarily due to intentional...
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    Salvia divinorum being a wild plant native to the area; a cultigen of the Mazatecs; or a cultigen introduced by another indigenous group. Botanists have...
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    Perilla frutescens var. crispa, also known by its Japanese name shiso, is a cultigen of Perilla frutescens, a herb in the mint family Lamiaceae. It is native...
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  • plant is cultigenous." Cultigen Alien (biology) Native Naturalization (biology) Bailey, L.H. 1918. The indigen and the cultigen. Science ser. 2, 47:306-308...
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    that are native in origin. They can be subdivided into the following: Cultigen apophytes – spread by cultivation methods Ruderal apophytes – spread by...
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  • This is a list of plum cultigens. "Fruit Variety" (PDF). sdstate.edu. South Dakota State University. Retrieved 7 June 2022. Plum Variety Descriptions...
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    partly because botanists struggled with distinguishing the two distinct cultigens as different species or variations. Until a few decades ago, P. frutescens...
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    for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP) Cultivated plant taxonomy Citrus taxonomy Cultigen Cultivar Group Grex History of plant systematics Herbarium International...
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    Roster. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-44062-2. The primary progenitor of the cultigen is evidently L. orientalis native to the Near East; the other species may...
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    islands. However, they still cultivated other ancestral Austronesian staple cultigens like Dioscorea yams and taro (the latter are still grown with smaller-scale...
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    species can no longer be traced with any degree of certainty. It is a cultigen with a very large number of cultivars. Like most plants, soybeans grow...
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    Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN) and, if it concerns a plant cultigen, the additional cultivar or Group epithets must conform to the International...
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    culture (like catamarans, outrigger boats, sewn-plank boats, and paan) and cultigens (like coconuts, sandalwood, bananas, and sugarcane); as well as connecting...
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  • cultivars that have been deliberately altered or selected by humans (see cultigen). Botanical nomenclature is independent of other systems of nomenclature...
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    commonly eaten globe artichoke is usually considered to be an ancient cultigen of this plant. Cardoon is an invasive species in United States, Argentina...
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    Peninsula of Mexico and the mouth of the Orinoco River in Venezuela. The cultigen was most likely spread by local people to the Caribbean and South America...
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    and in Hainanese cuisine from China. Pandanus amaryllifolius is a true cultigen, and is believed to have been domesticated in ancient times. It is sterile...
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    before the Austronesian expansion. Purple yam is believed to be a true cultigen, only known from its cultivated forms. The vast majority of cultivars are...
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    Greaves, Russell D. (2016). "Diversify or replace: what happens when cultigens are introduced into hunter-gatherer diets.". In Codding, Brian F.; Kramer...
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    known with certainty, and the West African variety has been described as a cultigen. Okra originated in East Africa in Ethiopia, Eritrea, and eastern Sudan...
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    is mainland southern China and Taiwan, where S. sinense was a primary cultigen of the Austronesian peoples. Words for sugarcane are reconstructed as *təbuS...
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  • naming cultigens, plants whose origin or selection is primarily due to intentional human activity. It is also known as Cultivated Plant Code. Cultigens under...
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    form of chicha. However, chicha is also made from a variety of other cultigens and wild plants, including, among others, quinoa (Chenopodium quinia)...
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    dainty slow-growing, early white-flowering cherry tree, this century-old cultigen from Hondo, Japan is highly regarded as an ornamental but the wood has...
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    which dates from 300 BC or possibly earlier and involves the transfer of cultigens (including banana, yam, taro, and rice) ... settlement of Madagascar by...
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    commences. Horticulturally the garden dahlia is usually treated as the cultigen D. variabilis hort., which while being responsible for thousands of cultivars...
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    Greengage (category Plum cultigens)
    The greengages are a group of cultivars of the common Middle Eastern plum. The first true greengage came from a green-fruited wild plum which originated...
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    gingembre). Ginger originated from Maritime Southeast Asia. It is a true cultigen and does not exist in its wild state. The most ancient evidence of its...
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