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  1. JTweedie

    Mountain birch

    Why are you being so argumentative? You haven't helped me once in any of your replies, but others have.
  2. JTweedie

    Mountain birch

    Good explanation thanks. I wouldn't have asked the question in the first place if I knew the answer!
  3. JTweedie

    Mountain birch

    Thank you. I think my main confusion here arises from a misunderstanding of what a synonym was in taxonomy, but I've read up on this now. I was reading it originally in its common usage as alternative names for the same thing, for example a pavement or a sidewalk.
  4. JTweedie

    Mountain birch

    But I don't know what is most widely used. Just what I've read in a few articles. For all I knew the other name was the most widely used and the articles I'd read were in the minority.
  5. JTweedie

    Mountain birch

    I must add that I'm not that familiar with plant names other than their common names. So I was just looking up differences between subspecies and varieties and I see that there's a difference between zoology and botany in that zoology doesn't use varieties.
  6. JTweedie

    Mountain birch

    You see, I was taking it as there being a "correct" name, such that perhaps something is given a new name and that's meant to be it for everyone. But perhaps I'm reading more into this than I should, and that there's more leeway among varieties or subspecies than there are among species.
  7. JTweedie

    Mountain birch

    Well that's my entire question. If I was to write about this and chose one of the names, my question was - would people know what I'm talking about or whether the name I used was valid.
  8. JTweedie

    Mountain birch

    Here's an example of people using the first example: The Mountain Birch Project
  9. JTweedie

    Mountain birch

    The people working in the field (literally), and whose work I've been reading about, are using Betula pubescens tortuosa. But the article I linked to is saying the accepted name, which I'm reading as the "official" name, is Betula pubescens pumila. It was this difference I'm querying.
  10. JTweedie

    Mountain birch

    Is there often a tension between what terminology or names people use, and that which is considered to be the "accepted" form? For example, I've been reading a bit today about the mountain birch. Many of the articles I've read from people working to understand and conserve this tree use the...
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