Taylor educates us on the process of naming plants, while assuaging Tori's complaints about the whole seemingly convoluted system! Join in to hear all about the origins of plant names, the vengeful botanist who started it all, and some fun plant names inspired by pop culture - from hundreds of years ago to today!
SOURCES:
https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/linnaeus.html
http://www2.biologie.fu-berlin.de/sysbot/poster/poster1.pdf
https://news.mongabay.com/2017/09/scientists-id-plant-species-in-the-field-within-hours/
https://shaelosplants.eu/wp-content/uploads/mythology_en.pdf
https://www.earthrangers.com/top-10/top-10-weird-plant-names/
https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/linnaeus.html
https://www.pacifichorticulture.org/articles/why-plant-names-change-2/
http://www.hopspress.com/Books/Botany_in_a_Day.htm
https://garden.org/courseweb/course1/week3/page6.htm
https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=954900#null
http://www.natperspective.com/nature/plantae/index.html
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