Cultivar

Cultivar is the abbreviation of 'cultivated variety'.

A cultivar is a version of a plant species that is not genetically different enough to be a separate species.   Clear as mud?  Yeah. 

Let's say you have four apple trees in your orchard.  You don't want the same kind of apples - that would be boring.  So, you have a Braeburn, a Honeycrisp, a Delicious Red, and a Crispin.  These are all apple trees, but they are four different Cultivars. 

(btw, there are over 7500 different cultivars of apple trees)

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