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Caribbean Pine
Caribbean Pine Pinus caribaea - The Caribbean Pine This tree is found in several Caribbean islands, but not Barbados. The pine tree with its cones is the sporophyte generation. The female strobilus of megasporophylls which we call the "cone" is thus one of two types of cone produced by the sporophyte. The microspores or pollen grains ...
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University and Jepson Herbaria: Don R. Reynolds
... for Sigma Xi, 2 grants The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 1 grant Overseas field experience Professional work was done in: The Americas - Belize, Brasil (largely the Amazon region), the Caribbean Islands (except Cuba), Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, French Guiana, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, San Salvador, Surinam, Venezuela and some of the Virgin Islands: The Pacific Basin and ...
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Sugar Cane, Pineapple, Coffee & Morinda
... Asia and south to Australia. It has been introduced throughout the tropical Pacific region and the Caribbean islands. In fact, its Pacific distribution coincides with many plants valued by the early Polynesians, such ... . The painkiller tree was used by people throughout tropical regions of the world. In the Caribbean region, the shiny green leaves were used by the Caribs as a poultice for wounds, ...
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Drift Seeds and Drift Fruits
... Ocean Dispersal of Coral Trees Cycad Distribution & Continental Drift The Hawaiian Silver Sword The Hawaiian islands are thousands of miles from the nearest continent or island mass. Even though they include ... Trees The Manchineel Tree There are dozens of unusual drift seeds that wash ashore on Caribbean islands, each with fascinating stories about them. One of the most interesting is an intricately ...
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Globetrotters Website - Botanical Databases - Data of Species
... sunny to half shady Watering plenty Horticulture Winter Temperature keep over 12C / 54F Soil keep moderately moist Remarks One of the few good recognizable species from the Caribbean islands Pictures taken at natural locality Young Adult Inflorescence Flower Pictures taken in horticulture Choice of Plant Names Agave aktites < > Agave albomarginata home introduction contributors news botanical ...
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Barbados Plants: Begonia
... botanist from France who crossed the Atlantic Ocean to visit and study these flowers which grew abundantly in Haiti, (one of our Caribbean islands). The name Begonia was given in honour of Michel Begon, the then governor of that island. There are thousands of different varieties acccompanied by the most splendid leaves. The most popular in Barbados are Begonia Nitida ...
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History of Barbados
... Venezuela a narrow sea channel called the Dragon's mouth acts as a funnel to the Caribbean sea and the nearest Island of Trinidad. It is a formidable passage of swift flowing water ... the Caribs' existence (History of Barbados). Spain, however, passed Barbados over in favour of the larger Caribbean islands (History of European Overseas Exploration and Empires). This left the island open for anyone who ...
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Ginger
... , but we know that the plant was brought to the West Indies in the early 1500s when the Spanish first occupied the Caribbean islands. During the Middle Ages in Europe ginger had become an important and expensive spice from the east, and the Spaniards fed that interest in the 1500s from their ginger plantations in Jamaica. This spice plant is a ...
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Caribbean Crazy Ant (proposed common name), Paratrechina pubens Forel (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae)
... group of ants referred to as "crazy ants" due to their quick and erratic movements. The Caribbean crazy ant is a medium-small (2.6-3 mm long), monomorphic, golden-brown to ... in several locations) and polygamous (multiple queens). CREDITS: F. J. Santana, Sarasota County Figure 4. Caribbean crazy ant, Paratrechina pubens Forel, workers tending brood. CREDITS: F. J. Santana, Sarasota County Figure 5. ...
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Open Directory - Science: Biology: Botany: Dendrology
... papers describing the characteristics and distribution of important broadleaf and coniferous forest trees of the United States and Canada, plus many of the native and naturalized trees of Mexico, the Caribbean Islands, and Hawaii. Compiled over several decades by USDA Forest Service scientists. Tree Matters - Site for The Dendrologist, a quarterly magazine. Also contains tree tips and a record of ...
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