r/botany • u/UnderHammer • 5h ago

Looking for a Book Classification

Is there a book anyone here knows about that lists a few hundred (or thousand) Latin binomials and their translation?

The Gardener’s Botanical by Princeton is so close to what I want, but requires too much flipping back and forth (each Latin name is translated separately).

I understand the Princeton publication eliminated redundancies (and maybe that’s why the type I’m looking for is possibly non-existent) but I feel that having each plant name’s genus defined followed by a list of species (name and translation) within said genus would aid with understanding.

Any ideas? Do I at least make sense? Amateur here :)

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u/d4nkle 4h ago

There is a botanical Latin translation book!! I’ve been wanting one for the longest time but they’re SO hard to find. A friend of mine in college had one but I don’t remember who it was by, I just remember it was out of print. I’ll reach out and let you know if I find out what it is

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u/UnderHammer 4h ago

That would be great! Thanks so much.

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u/WerewolfQuick 3h ago

There is a Latin for Botanists course here https://latinum.substack.com/p/index and it is free

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u/UnderHammer 2h ago

Very neat! Thanks for sharing :)

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u/UnderHammer 2h ago

Something like this! But for a much larger selection.

Maybe all wild edibles, or all northeastern wildflowers, etc.?

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u/victorian_vigilante 45m ago

You can try Peter Parker’s The Little Book of Latin for gardeners, it had vocab lists organised by descriptor types or the RHS Latin for Gardeners