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Rubra

/ROO-bra/
🏷️ Taxonomy Basic

Also known as: ruber, rubrum

One of the most common color epithets, meaning the plant has notably red features — whether flowers, foliage, stems, berries, or bark. Used across hundreds of species to denote a red or reddish form. Appears as ruber (masculine), rubra (feminine), or rubrum (neuter).

Etymology

From Latin rubrum, meaning "red," from ruber (red), related to rubere (to be red).

Example

Acer rubrum (red maple) earns its epithet through red flowers in spring, red leaf stems in summer, and blazing red fall color.