• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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    5 days ago

    chinense apparently was named that way, because it was introduced to china centuries ago by traders. if it originated in china, they wouldve called it Sinensis instead.

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      Is there any source for that? I need it! It’s kind of confusing, because there are plants called chinense, that are actual chinese natives (could be a naming error, happens a lot), so I’d like to know the exact rules.