Hi John,
No there is nothing I'm aware of which discriminates anywhere between
cultivated pears in general (Pyrus communis) & specific cultivars
('Conference'). Cultivar just is shorthand for "cultivated variety" so of
course there is no hierarchy variety=>cultivar.
That's just the way gardeners & horticulturalists have evolved their naming
over hundreds of years. (and for Japanese cherries it's worse as they have such
a complicated heritage it is not possible to accurately assign them to a
species, so they are formally known just with the genus & cultivar (Prunus
'Kanzan' for example).
I suspect the kind of thing you want is related to some other, non-biological,
property of the said orchard trees: such as colour, use (cooking apple, cider
apple, perry pear, ornament). Or you are looking for properties which are
biological, but not directly related to the biological classification (e.g.,
flowering time). If not then I can't help, and I'd be pretty sceptical that you
can achieve a tagging mechanism that is genuinely useful given that the
biological/horticultural one has 250+ years of refinement.
Jerry
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| Conference pear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaA Conference pear is a
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| Prunus 'Kanzan' - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPrunus 'Kanzan' (syn.
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From: John Willis <jo...@mac.com>
To: Jerry Clough - OSM <sk53_...@yahoo.co.uk>; "Tag discussion, strategy and
related tools" <tagging@openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Tuesday, 15 September 2015, 9:54
Subject: Re: [Tagging] Orchards and their crops
Javbw
> On Sep 15, 2015, at 5:27 PM, Jerry Clough - OSM <sk53_...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> our next problem is to identify the cultivars: not easy with cherries in
> Japan.
So there is nothing between
"This is a pear"
And
"This is the very specific cultivar of this variety of this pear.
?
It looks like ill be requesting some more tree types then.
Javbw.
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