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Gabe15 · 10-23-2005, 02:34 PM

Wild plants are given latin names, such as Musa basjoo. Cultivars, are given cultivar names which can be anything, the FHIA organization that does many hybrids to try and produce new commercial cultivars and they are given names like that, such as 'FHIA-1' aka 'Goldfinger', 'FHIA-2', 'FHIA-18' etc... FHIA also produces other hyrbid plants with different names such as 'SH3006', 'SH3846', sometimes these are also written as 'FHIA-SH3006'

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