Is Echeveria Gigantea a latin name or a common name? What is the latin name for Echeveria Gigantea?

Echeveria Gigantea is the Latin name for what I have heard called "Hens and Chicks" because they clump like baby chicks around their mum.

Is Echeveria Gigantea a latin name or a common name? What is the latin name for Echeveria Gigantea?
Latin.
Reply:You are studying 'taxonomy,' the science of classifying living things.





"Echevaria gigantea" is Latin. The "common names" we call livings things sound like this: cougar, cactus, sparrow, cat, dog. So "mountain lion" is the common name but "Felis concolor" is the Latin name. "Sagebrush" is the common name but "Artemisia tridentata" is the Latin name.





The 'scientific name' is the organism's genus %26amp; species name, in Latin.





Like the one you typed.





It's a type of cactus.