Plants that have changed their names.

Hi i'm new here and have a question if that's ok with you guys!

I'm currently doing a horticulture college course and i'm a little stuck on one question.

I have to find 5 different plants that have recently changed their names and no where can i find this info!

Can any of you guys recommend and good websites or books that i could look at, or give me any ideas of plants that have changed thier names. It says that plants that have changed thier names will have Synonym in them???

Many thanks in advance!!

 

Here's another one; the genus Brachyglottis which contains some species which were reclassified from the genus Senecio in 1977/78.
Brachyglottis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Trachycarpus fortunei springs to mind, used to be Chamaerops excelsa I believe.
How long ago is recent?

Fatsia japonica, syn. aralia sieboldii

 

They changed the name of Bluebells.

Used to be Endimion Non Scriptus, Badger knows what it is now

Who are "They" anyway ?

I've never re named anything that i've classified apart from the "Evil Duck"

 

Hi Tom and a warm welcome to the forum.

The worst one that I know started life as Dunalia australe, then changed to Acnistus australe, then Iochroma australe and has recently become Eriolarynx australe.

Brugmansia for many years was called Datura, but they were seperated into two seperate species. Even so thare are still sites that use Datura when they mean Brugmansia.

Then there is the matter of spelling. Brachyscome was given the name in 1816. It was later changed to Brachycome (without the s), and has now been changed back to include the s. But apparently there is still a debate.

 

Then you have Dendrothiums, which were once called Chrysanthemums, and pelargoniums which were once Geraniums.

 

Didn't some plants change from cruciferous to brassicas or umbilliferous or something?

Sorry, I know my vagueness probably doesn't help, I just remember the very knowledgeable old man next door talking about it.

 

Hi guys, thank you very much for the replies so far. Most helpful! I didn't even knnow where to start, tried google and didn't really bring up anything of much use, so thank you!

 

This reminded me of finding out last week that at an apple variety had its name changed from its original German name of Alkmene to Early Windsor to suit the UK market in the 1990's, rather like the Royal Family did during WW1.

Anyway, getting back to topic, I wonder how much of current re-classification is down to modern DNA testing techniques.

And some other reasons: http://www.kew.org/science/names.html

 

Polyganums spring to mind most are now called persicaria.

 

The Shrimp plant, a popular house plant in the past was known as Beloperone Guttata then changed to Drejerella Guttata and then to Justica brandegeeana.

Coleus are now Solenostemon.

Araucaria Herterophylla (Norfolk Island Pine) was Araucaria Excelsa.