Cultivar
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A Viola cultivar, 'Clear Crystals Apricot'
A cultivar is a variant of a plant that has been selected for planting and sale because it has certain characteristics. It keeps its traits when it is propagated because they are inherited.
Usually, cultivars are given a name which is not related to their biological taxon. There is a system of naming run by the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (the ICNCP), commonly known as the Cultivated Plant Code.
Cultivar Media
Osteospermum 'Pink Whirls' A cultivar selected for its intriguing and colourful flowers 
Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954) coined the words cultigen in 1918 and cultivar in 1923. 
Bread wheat, Triticum aestivum, is considered a cultigen, and is a distinct species from other wheats according to the biological species concept. Many different cultivars have been created within this cultigen. Many other cultigens are not considered to be distinct species, and can be denominated otherwise.
A cultivar of the orchid genus Oncidium 
Dahlia 'Akita' A cultivar selected for flower form and colour
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