In general usage the word indigen is treated as a variant of the word indigene, meaning a native. == Usage in botany == However, it was used in a strictly botanical sense for the first time in 1918 by Liberty Hyde Bailey ((1858–1954) an American horticulturist, botanist and cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science) and described as a plant " of known habitat ".
In general usage the word indigen is treated as a variant of the word indigene, meaning a native. == Usage in botany == However, it was used in a strictly botanical sense for the first time in 1918 by Liberty Hyde Bailey ((1858–1954) an American horticulturist, botanist and cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science) and described as a plant " of known habitat ".
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