Viewing post #1212209 by plantladylin

It took me a while to get the hang of entering new plants into the database and I still make mistakes at times. I messed up when entering a bunch of plants yesterday and our zuzu had to decline many of them and correct many of them for me; I entered a few with misspelled cultivar names and also a few with a cultivar name that was actually the Genus name, all taken from a plant nursery website ... I should have caught all or most of those errors.

I think I remember seeing plants listed at another site like this:

Common Name: Poison Ivy
Genus: Toxicodendron
Species: radicans

But here on ATP we list them like this:

Primary common name: Poison Ivy
Accepted botanical name Toxicodendron
(Genus species): Toxicodendron radicans

So you do actually type the Genus name (Toxicodendron) twice; just on two separate lines.