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If you are willing to know a common name while coming across Scientific name, you can search google to know the common name, make sure you put both Genus & species name together while you search. Google is smart enough to first give you the native name of the plant you are searching for from the region you belong to, as same plants have different common names at different regions.
Note: Plants name wherever mentioned are in Scientific name in form of (Genus species). Genus is a name of group and it always starts with capital letter. species is the individual's name which starts with a small letter and both are always written in 'italics'. Above Genus is Family which always ends with 'acea' and is also written in italics. (Family contains group of Genus and Genus contains group of species).
For instance Genus can be referred as a surname and species as an individual name, whenever specifing a name first its written Surname ( Genus) and then name ( species). The only difference is our Name starts with capital letters but species name does not. There can be same species name in different Genus, but Genus name is unique. You will not see same Genus name with different species name. Though in human world you will find two families with same surname but not in Plant taxanomy. After all plant taxanomy terms is given by humans under universal laws. For example Phlox paniculata and Andrographis paniculata.
To know more about Plant Taxanomy and name of all the Genus existing on this earth visit: eplantscience.com.
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