Basic gardening terms and definitions: Cultivar
Most vegetables like this 'chocolate' pepper are cultivars. Few wild edibles produce the big, tasty fruits of their cultivated counterparts.
‘Cultivar’ is a term often used to describe plants. It means that the variety of plant has been either selected or created by human cultivation. The word comes from a combination of cultivate and variety. A cultivar is maintained by intentional propagation. Many of the flowers and vegetables offered for sale are cultivars as they have been bred for better looks, performance and growth habits.
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