PWS Floral Design Practice Exam

A cultivar is a cultivated variety. It’s a plant line that humans have selected, named, and propagated to keep specific, desirable traits stable and uniform. The term itself signals intentional, ongoing cultivation and maintenance of those traits, typically through vegetative propagation to preserve consistency. This differs from a hybrid, which is a cross between two different parents and may not breed true without careful control. It also differs from a botanical variety, which is a natural variation within a species rather than one shaped and maintained by human cultivation. And it’s not the same as a clone, which refers to genetically identical copies derived from a single parent; though cultivars are often propagated clonally to preserve traits, the defining idea is that a cultivar is a human-maintained cultivated variety.