Botanical Names

🔸 abbreviatus 🔹 Short

🔸 acuminatus 🔹 Long tapering point

🔸 acutifolius 🔹 Having sharp leaves

🔸 adpressus 🔹 Pressed together, pressed against

🔸 adscendens 🔹 Rising, going up

🔸 aerius 🔹 Of the air, as air-roots

🔸 aeruginosa, aeruginosus 🔹 Rust coloured

🔸 aestivus, aestivum 🔹 Developing or ripening in the summer

🔸 affinus 🔹 Related, connected, having an affinity

🔸 africanus 🔹 From Africa

🔸 alatus 🔹 Winged

🔸 albescens 🔹 Pale, whitish

🔸 albidus, albus 🔹 White

🔸 albiflorus 🔹 Having white flowers

🔸 alpinus 🔹 Of the alpines, mountains

🔸 alternus 🔹 Alternating, not directly opposite

🔸 altus 🔹 Altitude, tall

🔸 amabilis 🔹 Amiable, lovely

🔸 amphibius 🔹 Adaptable either to land or water

🔸 angulosus 🔹 Angular in appearance

🔸 angustifolius 🔹 With narrow leaves

🔸 aquaticus 🔹 Of the water, water-loving

🔸 arborescens 🔹 Growing like a tree, woody like a tree

🔸 arenatius 🔹 Found in sandy places

🔸 argenteus, argentus 🔹 Silvery

🔸 aristatus 🔹 Bearded

🔸 ascendens 🔹 Going up, ascending

🔸 asiaticus, asiatus 🔹 From Asia

🔸 atlanticus 🔹 Atlantic

🔸 atropurpureus, atropurpurea 🔹 Purple colour

🔸 atrosanguineus 🔹 Dark blood-red

🔸 atroviolaceus 🔹 Dark violet

🔸 atrovirens 🔹 Dark green

🔸 augustus 🔹 Important in size or appearance, imposing

🔸 aurantiacus 🔹 Orange-red

🔸 aureus 🔹 Golden

🔸 biennis 🔹 Biennial

🔸 biflorus 🔹 Two flowered

🔸 bifolius 🔹 Two leaved

🔸 brevifolius 🔹 With short leaves

🔸 brevis 🔹 Short

🔸 brevisimus 🔹 Very short

🔸 brittanicus 🔹 From Britain

🔸 brunneus 🔹 Brown

🔸 calamifolius 🔹 With reed-like leaves

🔸 campestris 🔹 Found in fields

🔸 candelabrum 🔹 Having the form of a candelabra

🔸 candicans 🔹 White or frosty looking

🔸 capitatus 🔹 Flowers, fruit or whole plant growing in a dense head

🔸 carneus 🔹 Flesh-coloured

🔸 cerefolius 🔹 With waxy leaves

🔸 coccineus 🔹 Bright red

🔸 coloratus 🔹 Coloured

🔸 columnaris 🔹 Having the form of a column

🔸 comatus, comans 🔹 Tufted

🔸 concolor 🔹 Similar colouring

🔸 conglomeratus 🔹 All close together

🔸 contortus 🔹 Twisted, contorted

🔸 cordatus 🔹 Heart-shaped

🔸 cornutus, cornuta 🔹 Horned

🔸 crassifolius 🔹 With thick leaves

🔸 crenatus 🔹 Serrated

🔸 cuspidatus 🔹 Sharp tooth, or hard point

🔸 deformis 🔹 Deformed

🔸 deliciosus, deliciosa 🔹 Delicious

🔸 dendroideus 🔹 Resembling a tree

🔸 densatus 🔹 Dense

🔸 densiflorus 🔹 With dense flowers

🔸 densifolius 🔹 With dense leaves

🔸 dentatus 🔹 Toothed, with a series of points

🔸 dipterus 🔹 Two-winged

🔸 discolor 🔹 Of two or several colours

🔸 dissectus 🔹 Deeply cut leaves

🔸 divaricatus 🔹 Spreading

🔸 domesticus 🔹 Domesticated

🔸 edulis 🔹 Edible

🔸 elatus, elata 🔹 Tall

🔸 elegans 🔹 Elegant, graceful

🔸 elongatus 🔹 Long

🔸 erectus 🔹 Upright

🔸 excelsius, excelsus 🔹 Tall

🔸 exoticus, exotica 🔹 From another country

🔸 fastigiata, fastigiatus 🔹 With erect, upright branches, often creating the effect of a column.

🔸 ferox 🔹 Fierce, thorny

🔸 flaccidus 🔹 Soft, limp

🔸 flammeus 🔹 Flame-coloured

🔸 flexilis 🔹 Bendable, flexible

🔸 flore-pleno 🔹 With double flowers

🔸 floribunda, floribundus 🔹 Very free flowering

🔸 foetidus 🔹 Bad-smelling, having a foetid odour

🔸 fragrans 🔹 Sweet-smelling, fragrant

🔸 fragrantissimus 🔹 Very sweet-smelling

🔸 frutescens 🔹 Bushy, shrubby, twiggy

🔸 gallicus 🔹 From Gaul (France)

🔸 giganticus 🔹 Large, gigantic

🔸 glaucus 🔹 With a bloom (frost-like) on the leaves

🔸 gloriosus, gloriosa 🔹 Superb, glorious

🔸 gracilis 🔹 Slender, graceful, lissom

🔸 grandifolius 🔹 With large leaves

🔸 guttatus 🔹 Spotted or freckeld

🔸 haemanthus 🔹 With blood-red flowers

🔸 humilis 🔹 Dwarf or low growing.

🔸 japonicus 🔹 From Japan

🔸 lanceolatus 🔹 In the shape of a spear

🔸 latifolius 🔹 With broad leaves

🔸 leptolepis 🔹 With thin scales

🔸 leptophyllus 🔹 With thin leaves

🔸 leucodermis 🔹 With white skin

🔸 lobularuis 🔹 Lobed

🔸 luteus 🔹 Yellow

🔸 macranthus 🔹 With large flowers

🔸 maximus 🔹 The largest

🔸 medius 🔹 Medium

🔸 megalophyllus 🔹 With very large leaves

🔸 megaspermus 🔹 With very large seeds

🔸 microphyllus 🔹 With very small leaves

🔸 minimus 🔹 Very small

🔸 mollis 🔹 Hairy, fuzzy

🔸 myriophyllus 🔹 With many leaves

🔸 nacro 🔹 Big, long, large

🔸 nanus, nana 🔹 Dwarf, small

🔸 nerifolius, nerifolia, 🔹 With narrow leaves

🔸 niger 🔹 Black

🔸 nodulosa 🔹 With small nodes

🔸 nudifolia 🔹 Deciduous, naked of leaves

🔸 oblongatus 🔹 Oblong, oval

🔸 officinalis 🔹 Medicinal

🔸 parviflorus 🔹 With small flowers

🔸 parvifolia 🔹 With small leaves

🔸 patens 🔹 Spreading

🔸 pavoninus 🔹 Peacock blue

🔸 pictum, pictus 🔹 Highly coloured, painted

🔸 pinnatus 🔹 Like a feather. With leaves that grow from each side of a stalk

🔸 podocarpus 🔹 With stalked fruits

🔸 polydactylus 🔹 With many fingers

🔸 porphyreus 🔹 Purple

🔸 praecox 🔹 Very early

🔸 procumbens 🔹 Procumbent, lying down

🔸 pumilus 🔹 Dwarf, small

🔸 pygmaeus 🔹 Pygmy

🔸 pyramidalis 🔹 Pyramidal

🔸 repens 🔹 Creeping, low

🔸 reticulatus 🔹 With a netted pattern

🔸 robustus 🔹 Strong, robust

🔸 rotundifolius 🔹 With round leaves

🔸 scandens 🔹 Climbing

🔸 semperflorens 🔹 Everblooming

🔸 sempervirens 🔹 Always green

🔸 serpens 🔹 Creeping

🔸 serratus 🔹 With a saw tooth edge

🔸 sessile, sessilis 🔹 Without a stalk

🔸 setaceus, setaceum, setiferum 🔹 With bristles

🔸 stolenifera 🔹 With runners

🔸 strictus 🔹 Erect

🔸 sylvaticus 🔹 Of the forest

🔸 tenuifolius 🔹 With slender leaves

🔸 tomentosus 🔹 Very woolly

🔸 tricho 🔹 Prefix meaning hairy

🔸 trifidus, trifida 🔹 Cut in three (nothing to do with triffids)

🔸 variegatus 🔹 Variegated

🔸 verrucosus 🔹 Warty

🔸 virens 🔹 Green

🔸 virginianus 🔹 Of Virginia, first defined in Virginia

🔸 viridis 🔹 Green

🔸 vulgaris 🔹 Common, ordinary

🔸 xanthinus 🔹 Yellow

🔸 zonalis 🔹 Banded