[PCA] NEWS: Missouri Botanical Garden seeks to name the world's plants

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.stltoday.com/news/science/article_e443b79e-e913-582c-8f53-b2392526441e.html

Missouri Botanical Garden seeks to name the world's plants
BY GEORGINA GUSTIN
www.STLtoday.com 
Posted: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 12:00 am

ST. LOUIS -- You might know the towering sentinels of California's redwood 
forests as giant sequoias. A botanist might use the scientific handle: 
Sequoiadendron giganteum.

But, somewhat confusingly, a botanist also might call these familiar, 
iconic trees by one of 18 other scientific names. Therein, botanists say, 
lies a frustrating problem of global consequence, one that researchers at 
the Missouri Botanical Garden have worked to fix.

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