Thelists of cultivars in the table below are indices ofplantcultivars,varieties, andstrains. Acultivar is a plant that isselected for desirable characteristics that can be maintained bypropagation.
The plants listed may beornamental,medicinal, and/oredible. Several of them bear ediblefruit. Plants areselectively bred forphenotypic traits (such as flower colour) and otherhereditary traits. When developing a new variety, a plant breeder might value such characteristics as appearance, disease resistance, andhardiness. In the cultivation of edible fruit andvegetables,nutritional value,shelf life, andcrop yield are also among the potential considerations.
Some of the lists use the wordvariety instead ofcultivar. In most of these lists,variety refers to a cultivar that is recognised by theInternational Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV). A cultivar must meet certain criteria in order to be recognised by UPOV as a namedvariety.
In a few lists,variety means something else: ataxonomic rank below that ofspecies (a kind ofsubspecies). If the species'binomial name is followed by the wordvar. and another name, that is a botanical variety, not a cultivar.
