Editing Dianthus caryophyllus (section)

==Taxonomy==
[[File:Stilleben. Frukt. Binoit - Skoklosters slott - 22175.tif|thumb|300px|[[Peter Binoit]], ''Stilleben, frukt'' – Still life with carnations, 1618]]
Carnations were mentioned in Greek literature 2,000 years ago.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Teague |first=Lettie |date=2010-10-22 |title=The Carnation Makes a Comeback |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304410504575560360543473040 |access-date=2025-04-09 |work=Wall Street Journal |language=en-US |issn=0099-9660}}</ref> The term ''dianthus'' was coined by Greek botanist [[Theophrastus]],<ref name=":0" /> and is derived from the [[Ancient Greek]] words for divine ("dios") and flower ("anthos").<ref>"What in Carnation?", Wall Street Journal, Off Duty Section, 23–24 October 2010, p.D1</ref> The name "carnation" is believed to come from the Latin {{Lang|la|corona}}, a "wreath, garland, chaplet, crown",<ref name="ReferenceA">Cassell's Latin Dictionary, Marchant, J.R.V, & Charles, Joseph F., (Eds.), Revised Edition, 1928</ref> as it was one of the flowers used in Greek and Roman ceremonial crowns, or possibly from the Latin ''{{Lang|la|caro}}'' (genitive ''{{Lang|la|carnis}}''), "flesh",<ref name="ReferenceA"/> which refers to the natural colour of the flower, or in Christian iconography ''incarnatio'', "[[incarnation]]", God made flesh in the form of Jesus.

[[Carl Linnaeus]] described the carnation in volume one of his ''[[Species Plantarum]]'' in 1753, giving it the name ''Dianthus caryophyllus''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Linnaeus |first=Carl | title=Species Plantarum| publisher=Laurentii Salvii |location=Stockholm | year=1753|chapter= Tomus&nbsp;I |volume=1 |  url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/358429 | page=410|language=la}}</ref> Although originally applied to the species ''Dianthus caryophyllus'', the name carnation is also often applied to some of the other species of ''[[Dianthus]]'', and more particularly to garden [[Hybrid (biology)|hybrid]]s between ''D. caryophyllus'' and other species in the genus.