Request for Proposal

Cultivar Descriptions – Content Creation

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What’s this content for?

This writing task is to draw the first impression of a specific cultivar* to the audience. This section is the first section directly talking about the characters of a cultivar, we should tell the readers the information about the origin of the breed, and why people breed this lineage. Try your best to highlight the uniqueness of the cultivar.

*Note: A cultivar is a plant variety cultivated by humans through artificial selection. It is not usually true to seed – the offspring grown from the seeds are rarely genetically the same as the parent.

This section will be shown like this:

Requirements

1. General Requirements:

  • Word Count: Each description should consist of around 40-60 words.

  • Focus on the Characteristics of the Cultivar: Discuss the characteristics of these specific cultivars, NOT the original species in general. Common characteristics of the species should not be discussed here. 

  • Avoid Formulaic Expression: Try to change the choice of content and expression appropriately, preventing similar content with a similar structure from appearing repeatedly within one working set. Overly formulaic content (>50% content is written in the same form) will be rejected.

  • Avoid simple listing: including but not limited to geographical distribution and habitat. Try to use generalized terms, e. g., we should say it is bred from different species originating in “Northeast Asia” instead of in “Japan, Korea, Inner Mongolia, and Russian Far East”. A simple listing of more than 3 items (countries, habitats) at one time is NOT ALLOWED.

  • Different aspects of facts: Each description should consist of 2 or more “facts” (Go to 2. Recommended Facts). 

2. Recommended Facts (Dos)

  • From which plant parentage was it cultivated?

  • What does the cultivar have to offer that the original plant lacks?

  • Garden usage, culinary use, economic usage, etc. if it is out of the ordinary.

  • Special appearance. (Clearly express how it differs from other varieties. There is no need to describe it in detail because users can see the photos at the same time. Focus on the difference.)

  • The name origin: why this breed is called this. (But for names consisting both of color and other, please do not only explain the part of the color.)

  • The similarity to some popular breeds and how to distinguish them.

3. Avoiding introducing like: (Don’ts)

  • DO NOT discuss common characteristics of the parental species, including the plant origin, physical appearances, size measurements (unless it’s a feature of the cultivar), or anything that makes it no different than other cultivars.

  • DO NOT discuss ways to take care of, or propagate the cultivar.
  • DO NOT list scientific synonyms or alternative common names. These names are listed in our system in another section, please do not mention them UNLESS you are trying to tell an interesting name story.
  • DO NOT mention any air cleaning functions. Widely cited “NASA Research” supporting the air-cleaning effects of plants is flawed. The air-cleaning efficiency of all the plants is later proven to be too low to be practical. Using any plant to absorb toxic chemicals in your room is not realistic, so please DO NOT mention any air-cleaning effects of plants in this section.
Special Attentions
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  • Use common names instead of Latin names whenever possible.

  • When common name is not present, please use the _COMMON_NAME_ placeholder.
  • Italicize any Latin words that appear (e.g., scientific names, parent plant names, etc.)

  • When there is no common name and you are writing a name story about the scientific name, please put name story in a separate sentence, using italics for the scientific name.

  • If after thorough research, the plant given is not a cultivar, please explain in the comments and let us know.
Sample Descrisptions

Osteospermum ‘Pink Whirls’ (African Daisy ‘Pink Whirls’)

  • African Daisy ‘Pink Whirls’ is selected among African daisies for its unique look. Its pink-colored “petals” are pinched in the middle section, which makes them look like spoons【unique look】. And that is why it is called “Spooned Daisy” sometimes.【name story】

Crassula pellucida ‘Petite bicolor‘
(no common name is present, so note the placeholder and the format for the scientific name story)

  • _COMMON_NAME_ is an attractive succulent that is low growing but spreads readily, making it a good groundcover for temperate or warm climate gardens. It lives up to its scientific title Crassula pellucida ‘Petite bicolor‘ since its leaves have two colors and it is a dwarf or ‘petite’ hybrid. Its parent plant is Crassula pellucida subsp. Marginalis, which is of similar size but has pure green leaves with the same delicate pink edges.