Category:Plants named after colours

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Some colour terms that appear in scientific names

Alba/-um: white
Albicans: whitening
Atro- : dark
Aurrantiacus: orange
Brunneo- : brown
Chaeno- : paling
Chrys-, chryso- : golden, greenish-golden
Coccinea/-um: scarlet
Flavus: yellow or blond
Fusca/-um: dark, dusky
Leuc-, leuco-, leuca/-us: white or yellow
Melas, melano- : black
Niger, nigra/-um: black
Ochros, ochro-: light
Purpurea/-um: purple
Rubella/-um: reddish
Rosea/-um: rosy, red
Ruber, rubra/-um: red
Versicolor: variegated or diversified in color
Viridis: green

Subcategories

This category has the following 15 subcategories, out of 15 total.

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Plant species named after colours‎ (31 C)

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Cultivars named after colours‎ (30 C, 3 F)

A

B

Dietes bicolor‎ (2 C, 1 P, 93 F)

C

Gladiolus carmineus‎ (4 F)

F

Cipura xanthomelas‎ (1 F)

O

Moraea ochroleuca‎ (1 P, 14 F)
Gladiolus ochroleucus‎ (1 C, 1 P, 7 F)

R

Babiana rubrocyanea‎ (1 C, 1 P, 17 F)

T

Moraea tricolor‎ (1 P, 1 F)

V

Crocus versicolor‎ (1 C, 1 P, 2 F)

X

Anthoxanthum‎ (14 C, 1 F)

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