The advantage of knowing scientific names

Hello, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. Scientific names are the bane of many, but when I traveled to China years ago I went to the Beijing Botanical Garden and delighted in knowing some. The indoor and greenhouse plants were spectacular. But when I went out and wandered through the trees, I promised to never fuss about having to learn scientific names again. On the identification tags the names were written in Chinese characters but also the scientific name given by Linnaeus was printed in our alphabet. Lots of the trees had the same generic, or first name, as trees here do. Some of those trees Liriodendron, tulip poplar, sassafras, Chionanthus, fringe tree, and Liquidambar or sweetgum. It’s due to the Eastern Asian Eastern North American biogeographic disjunction.