i come from more of an animal education (herpetology) but it seems that plant taxonomy is a WAY bigger mess than much of animal classification.
i know what officially defines species, sort of (lol), but what should actually declare separations and clumping?
seems to me with all the rules set out to define a specie is so commonly broken so many times. so. ya, is it even possible to use the current system for classifying, at least plants, species?
the binomial system is cool and rather useful in many ways, but it seems rather inadequate in so many other ways. for a very obvious single point: hybrids and reproduction.
is it even possible to, probably cant ever use this work in a realistic context here, *properly* distinguish different plants from each other in a ___________ system?
some use morphology, others reproduction, others chemistry, others the effects they have when taken (medicines and poisons), or perhaps all or a couple together.
seems some groups, Echinopsis, prove much of the "rules" for distinction wrong or invalid.....OR..... the current classification is wrong and perhaps things like astrophytum and lophophora are the same specie cause they have been hybridized, for example. or maybe this whole binomial system is flawed from the get go?
anyway, just curious. maybe they're dumb q's, i think stupid random things when i drink sometimes
i come from more of an animal education (herpetology) but it seems that plant taxonomy is a WAY bigger mess than much of animal classification.
i know what officially defines species, sort of (lol), but what should actually declare separations and clumping?
seems to me with all the rules set out to define a specie is so commonly broken so many times. so. ya, is it even possible to use the current system for classifying, at least plants, species?
the binomial system is cool and rather useful in many ways, but it seems rather inadequate in so many other ways. for a very obvious single point: hybrids and reproduction.
is it even possible to, probably cant ever use this work in a realistic context here, *properly* distinguish different plants from each other in a ___________ system?
some use morphology, others reproduction, others chemistry, others the effects they have when taken (medicines and poisons), or perhaps all or a couple together.
seems some groups, Echinopsis, prove much of the "rules" for distinction wrong or invalid.....OR..... the current classification is wrong and perhaps things like astrophytum and lophophora are the same specie cause they have been hybridized, for example. or maybe this whole binomial system is flawed from the get go?
anyway, just curious. maybe they're dumb q's, i think stupid random things when i drink sometimes
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