Carol Kein seems to explain Latin names very well...a true wealth of knowledge

I'm glad you made this video along with your great gardening tips!

I have taught my children that plants are living things and every plant has a purpose. Just like every thing on this planet. Such great information thank you for sharing. 💚💚💚💚💚💚

That's certainly helped me with one Christmas present idea for my 6-year old grand-daughter!

Thank you! This video was immensely helpful! Like my fellow commenters, I too was a tad bit confused at first. Only rather than gripe about it, I simply hit replay a few more times and vOiLà! My confusion was sorted, lol! Although I must admit, Mr. Thurgood did make the repeated watching rather easy. He is quite the looker!

Great show!!!!! Thank you for the detailed information.

I'm glad I got to grips with binomial nomenclature years ago or I'd be thoroughly confused now. Book looks excellent

What a great video. I learned a lot. Great topic.

Thank you for making this video. I am currently a student at Fleming College school of environmental science studying Ecosystem Management. I have many many tests on plant species and their scientific names. It can be hard to remember species and their identification features mainly because binomial nomenclature is new to me! So hopefully this book will help the younger generations.

I always thought it was Latin. I love learning this .

Great video! I'm a fan of your videos, this particular video I'm going to share with on FB Homeschool CoOp..such an interesting format to introduce botany lessons thru this book.

Btw ppp was unavailable at Barnes And Noble when we looked there.

will this be available on Amazon again? Now it just shows 'unavailable'. When searching myself it only seems to be sold in Chinese on Amazon now :( Its also no longer available at the Quarto link provided in your description.

Interesting subject, we are a bit obsessed with scientific names in the tree world 👍

Oh dear. I've watched this twice and I'm still confused :( Perhaps Dr Thorogood can write a 'Plant Scientific Names For Dummies' book for us... dummies :-/

I would love a copy of that book! unfortunately, due to the pandemic and loosing my job, i wont be able to get a copy for a while

Great to have such videos - but just a bugbear, when talking about 'Michaelmas daisies', around 1:40, the voice-over says "unrelated", then "many weren't related genetically at all". Given that (as far as we know) all lifeforms are related across a 'tree of life', i've never understood how so many educators say things are 'unrelated' and such, when they actually mean something akin to 'less closely related than previously thought' or just 'not closely related' etc. Point is, any given species of nematode is related to a given species of elephant, both of which are related to each other, albeit distantly, but also to any of those 'Michaelmas daisies' - which in such context those various latter ones are closely related to each other!

Great intro, BUT... Why only left audio channel ???

Would you kindly give three good reason why we use botanical name?

How many generic names one would have to learn before we even start on the specific epithet! Not to mention when 'they' keep changing the names! I find it difficult enough to remember the 'common or garden' names of plants I have planted! If anyone asks me "What plant is that?" even if I know it, I become totally tongue-tied.

I walk through the valley of binomial nomenclature, and fear no evil.🙂

Binomial nomenclature you say... 🙈 that's gone take some practice.

Do they also get the names from the area they were originated ? this would help us know afrca is the source of all plants why do they hide this truth from us by giving us so many ambiguous information

He is so fine

Why might understanding botanical names be important?

why would you borrow a name? couldn't come up with its own?

This is just a book advertisement

I really hate to say this but, I'm more confused after watching this, than I was before watching it. First off, the pace might be okay for someone just learning. But for someone who knows a little but is confused... Whoosh! Next, the back and forth visuals do not help. It's like being dragged from one end of the garden to the other, and back, and, Oh, let's go over here, now there, here we are back again. I spent most of my time in this video trying to figure out what I was looking at, and what it had to do with how botanical names are constructed. And as you know (or at least I hope you know) when someone is trying to "figure" anything out, they are NOT listening to what is being said, they are focusing their attention on whatever they are trying to figure out. You were doing good when you started to compare botanical names to people's names. Right up until... "whoosh". By time I realized what you were doing, it was half over. And by time I could start recalling what had just zipped by me, it was over. Wait until people have a good grasp on how the names are constructed before showing them the diversity of plants. That's a subject for a whole nuther story. A lesson on "How to understand..." anything, is not the lesson to expand and teach diversity.

They seem racist....but needed in professional life 😆 funny to hear looking at your background...