Glossary
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Cultivar
A plant that has evolved in cultivation and which is sufficiently different from all others to receive a unique cultivar name. Cultivar names are printed with a capital letter and in single quotation marks, e.g. 'Alba' is the cultivar name in
Veronica longifolia
'Alba'. The abbreviation for cultivar is cv. In everyday parlance, cultivars are often called
varieties
.