Arten und Sorten

English translation: species and varieties

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German term or phrase:	Arten und Sorten
English translation:	species and varieties
Entered by:	Natalie Chandler

11:42 Feb 14, 2004

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Botany / Gardening

German term or phrase: Arten und Sorten

"Hortensien (Hydrangea-Arten und -Sorten)"

What is the correct technical way to translate these gardening terms? This has to be accurate!
- Types and varieties
- Species and varieites
- Varieties and species ....
Thanks in advance to all you green-fingered translators out there!

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species and varieties

Explanation:
see here:... they produce their flower buds. Hydrangeas come in a multitude of species
and varieties, and all we basically need to know is . . . ...
www.colorchoiceplants.com/hydsuccess.htm

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species and varieties

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Species and cultivars

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kinds and sorts

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species and varieties

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kinds and sorts

Explanation:
BOTANICAL GARDEN
... More than 4500 kinds, forms, sorts and varieties of trees, bushes, shrubs, lianas,
grassy and water plants are in the collection of the Botanical garden. ...
www.academy.uz/eng/objekts/botan.html

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Species and cultivars

Explanation:
Hydrangea is the genus name, next comes the species name, e.g. Hydrangea paniculata. Finally there is the variety or cultivar name (cultivar = cultivated variety). A cultivar is typically shown in single quotation marks as in Salvia officinalis 'Tricolor' (genus/species/cultivar). I must admit that 'species and varieties' would be the more general translation. Depends on the context. Here's a reference:

"Among cultivated plants...there can be wide variation within a species. Gardeners have always singled out and propagated individual plants with noteworthy form, color, fragrance, or flavor. Any cultivated plant with particular features that are passed along when the plant is reproduced by seed or by asexual propagation is called a cultivar, short for cultivated variety. To be proper, cultivar names should follow the species name, as in Salvia officinalis 'Tricolor'. (Botanical varieties can also have cultivars - for example, Viburnum plicatum var. tomentosum 'Mariesii' is a large-flowered form of double file viburnum.) For convenience, though, most gardeners refer to vegetables, fruits, and annual flowers by the cultivar name and common name, such as 'Silver Queen' sweet corn." (Rodale's Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening).

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Native speaker of: English

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