Glossary of Botanical Terms

Suffixes-

-acea: resembling

-antha: flowered

-carpa: fruit

-cola: an inhabitant of

-ensis: indicates country of origin,place of growth or habitat

-fera: bearing something,

-flora: flowered

-folia: leaved

-issima: extremely

-phylla: leaved

 

-Prefixes

Laevi- : smooth

macro- :large

parvi- : small

pauci- : few

platy- : flat,broad or wide

poly- : many

 

Colours

alba: white

carnea: flesh

lutea: yellow

rosea: rose pink

rubra: red

sanguinea: blood-red

violacea: violet

Xanthina: yellow

Flower types

densiflora: dense-flowered

flore plena: with double flowers

grandiflora: large-flowered

normalis: with single flowers

semi plena: with semi double flowers