What's in a name?
Hello, my readers!👋👋 This blog is about my obsession with scientific names of plants. The study of scientific naming, describing and classifying all biological organisms on the basis of the characters they share, is known as Taxonomy. I am mostly interested in Plant Taxonomy. Plants always amused me, they still do! I was fascinated by their growth, development. WOW! Take any plant cutting and plant them, they will grow, sow seeds in soil, it will sprout, when the develop they give out beautiful flowers and then these flowers become fruits and what do fruits have in them? Seeds! sow these seeds and the cycle is repeated. Such a beautiful process!💓 If you remember your high school biology lessons, you would be familiar with hierarchal system of classification of plants , if you don't, this is it: Kingdom-Division-Class-Order-Family-Genus-Species. Plants are classified based on their characters they exhibit, for example, there is a group of plant species that produce milky-wh