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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Momo" data-source="post: 1743547" data-attributes="member: 16499">Apparently botanists do not capitalize the names of plant species so the above would presumably not be correct when referring to a box of that kind of tree in a botanical journal (hardly relevant to a box of fruit). If ornithologists choose to capitalize bird species names (or any other kind of species name) in their journals, or wherever, for reasons of disambiguation, then it's fine by me, but I'm not sure whether there is a consensus with regard to species names in general. Still, I leant English from the backs of Corn Flakes packets, so what would I know?P.S. Fozzybear, count yourself lucky - they're going to build a motorway through my local patch!</blockquote>