Recommended Usage
Wider use of the term cultigen as defined here has been proposed for the following reasons:
- supports current usage in horticulture
- assists clarity in non-technical discussions about “wild” and “cultivated” plants (for example, cultivated plants as commonly understood (plants in cultivation) are not the same as the "cultivated plants" of the Cultivated Plant Code, and the distinction between "wild" and "cultivated" habitats is becoming progressively blurred)
- has the potential to simplify the language and definitions used in the Articles and Recommendations of the Cultivated Plant Code
- gives greater precision and clarity to the definition of the respective scope, terminology and concepts of the Botanical Code and the Cultivated Plant Code
- avoids the potential for confusion within the Cultivated Plant Code over its scope, that is, whether it is concerned with:
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- where plants are growing (in the wild or in cultivation)
- how they originated (whether they are the result of intentional human activity or not)
- whether it simply provides a mechanism for regulating the names of those cultigens requiring special classification categories that are not part of the Linnaean hierarchy of the Botanical Code i.e. cultivar and Group names
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