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Botanary - brilliant online botanic dictionary
I stumbled across this awesome botanic dictionary the other day, and have been using it quite a lot ever since, so thought I'd share:
I'm fine with the first latin name of a plant, but have always struggled with the second part (eg Sanguisorba tenuifolia, Ribes sanguineum). In most instances, the second part is quite useful in finding out more about the nature of the plant, ie distinctive features etc, but not being fluent in latin (!) it's generally a minefield, and never sticks in my brain. Well, not any more!
Admittedly this site is not going to be of interest to everyone, but to those who are interested in what all those pesky latin names (that aren't obvious) mean, fill your boots. 

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Thanks for posting, will be bookmarking the site.
I also use the book “plant names simplified” (Johnson, Smith and Stockdale) ...I find that once you know what the latin names mean, they are so much easier to remember. Sanguineum = bright red ....sorted 👍🏻
My favourite book on this theme because of its emphasis on some quirky etymologies is Parker’s ‘A little book of Latin for gardeners’.
When I began professional horticultural training I joined a very old fashioned nursery - even the wages dated back to 1835! Nothing was wasted, seedtrays and boxes were all wooden and repaired many times and when finally giving up the ghost had their staves separated - they'd then be painted and used as big labels. When I think of plant names I still have a tendency to turn my head on one side to read the vertical label.
I was expected to learn a hundred new names every week and was interrogated by the "Old Man" on pay day. Each winter a large order of stock would arrive from the Netherlands in huge wicker baskets often necessitating new labels.... oh Joy of Joys!
Apropos that cactus, the Toyota MR2 (merdre) was never going to sell well in France and was rebranded MR. For very similar reasons the Rolls Royce Silver Cloud was going to be called the Silver Mist until it was pointed out sales would plummet in Germany. And should folk have a penchant for scatalogical etymology, the Dutch origin of poppycock is interesting.
As for plants and their binomials - think how it started ( yes, I know, another arguement) but Carl Linnaeus (Linn) features prominently and he had rather a thing about sexual bits and rather mischievously thought up names such as Clitoria so he could bring otherwise explicit language into polite dinning rooms.
If I was to describe a new delicate flower I'd be tempted to name it Sussexia Megansis - an amazing discovery from the New World, outwardly beautiful but culture very difficult outside it's native environment, has a tendency to crowd out companion plants. Hybrid crosses are in development.