Difference Between Cultivar and Variety

In short, a cultivar is a plant that is produced and maintained by horticulturists but does not produce true-to-seed; whereas, a variety is a group of plants within a species that has one or more distinguishing characteristics and usually produces true-to-seed.

1. What is a cultivar in plants?
2. What is the difference between cultivar and hybrid?
3. What is a variety of a plant?
4. What is the difference between genotype and variety?
5. What does cultivar mean in English?
6. Are all cultivars clones?
7. Are all cultivars sterile?
8. Are cultivars considered native?
9. What is variety in taxonomy?
10. What is an example of variety?
11. What is mean variety?
12. What is a variety name?

What is a cultivar in plants?

The cultivar is the basic grouping, or taxon (= culton), for cultivated varieties. The word was coined by L. H. Bailey in 1923 and is now commonly used. ... A cultivar name can only be given to cultivated plants whose origin or selection is primarily due to the intentional actions of mankind.

What is the difference between cultivar and hybrid?

A cultivar or cultivated variety is a sub-grouping within a species that occurs in cultivation, such as 'Brandywine' and 'Big Boy' tomato cultivars. ... A hybrid results from the cross pollination of two cultivars. This can happen naturally in the garden or controlled by plant breeders.

What is a variety of a plant?

'Variety' means a plant grouping, within a single botanical taxon of the lowest known rank, defined by the reproducible expression of its distinguishing and other genetic characteristics. (

What is the difference between genotype and variety?

As nouns the difference between variety and genotype

is that variety is the quality of being varied; diversity while genotype is (genetics) the combination of alleles, situated on corresponding chromosomes, that determines a specific trait of an individual, such as "aa" or "aa".

What does cultivar mean in English?

: an organism and especially one of an agricultural or horticultural variety or strain originating and persistent under cultivation.

Are all cultivars clones?

Clones may not be cultivars, and cultivars may not be clones. Few, if any, of our currently popular trees are clones, but with increased success in biotechnology (tissue culture), some will certainly be cloned in the future. All it takes to make a cultivar a clone is naming it a clone and growing it on its own roots.

Are all cultivars sterile?

Many cultivars are sterile, depriving wildlife of winter seed sources. Vegetative propagation produces identical clones, depriving the plant community of the genetic diversity and flexibility that should be its strength. We encourage growers to stay away from these cultivars in favor of true native species.

Are cultivars considered native?

Native Cultivars

Many people who enjoy native plants also consider seedlings and cultivars of these plants to be native. You may have heard the term native cultivar (“nativar” for short) used to describe such plants. A native cultivar is a plant that results when native parent plants are used to create a new cultivar.

What is variety in taxonomy?

From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In botany, variety is a rank (like species or subspecies) or a taxon in that rank. Like a subspecies, a variety gets a three-part name (a trinomial); such a variety name will include the name of the species and the variety epithet.

What is an example of variety?

Variety is an assortment or the state of having many different things. An example of variety is when you have purple flowers, blue flowers, green flowers and flowers of a whole bunch of other colors.

What is mean variety?

1 : the quality or state of having different forms or types : multifariousness. 2 : a number or collection of different things especially of a particular class : assortment. 3a : something differing from others of the same general kind : sort.

What is a variety name?

Variety names refer to the genetic makeup of seed and may only refer to a specific genetic makeup. Plant breeders are constantly improving varieties; whenever the genetic makeup is changed a new variety is created and it must have a new variety name.