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The language of flowers

olks in ancient times had the desire to learn from plants, in the sense that they collected them from nature, propagated them far from their natural habitats, tested them on a trial-and-error basis to see how they could be utilised, and then realised that they hadn’t named them. To identify the plants is the human side of plant dialogue, which is known as botanical nomenclature. This includes the formal scientific naming of plants as well as taxonomy, which is the grouping and classification of plants into high orders and families even before naming

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