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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 ...
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University and Jepson Herbaria: Don R. Reynolds
... 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 ...
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Sugar Cane, Pineapple, Coffee & Morinda
... (ethyl alcohol) to fuel automobiles. During the 1800s, the natural rain forests on many Caribbean islands were obliterated in order to plant sugar cane. Slaves were imported from Africa to ... 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, ...
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Drift Seeds and Drift Fruits
... nickernuts are sold by street vendors as amulets to ward off evil spirits. On some Caribbean islands nickernuts are used in a strategy board game called "Island Waurie." Two players sit on ... 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-sculptured ...
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Globetrotters Website - Botanical Databases - Data of Species
... °F 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 ...
www.agavaceae.com

Barbados Plants: Begonia
... 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 ...
www.barbados.org

History of Barbados
... 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 ... the sugar industry. They had been surpassed by the Leeward Islands and the Jamaica. Read about the Pirates of the Caribbean who called Barbados home during this period. 1807 - 1838 . ...
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Ginger
... 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 ...
www.botgard.ucla.edu

Caribbean Crazy Ant (proposed common name), Paratrechina pubens Forel (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae)
... Selected References Footnotes Disclaimer Copyright Infomation Caribbean Crazy Ant (proposed common name), Paratrechina pubens Forel (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae) Caribbean Crazy Ant (proposed common name), Paratrechina ... St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles, and has been found on other West Indian islands, including Anguilla, Guadeloupe, and Puerto Rico (Trager 1984). Samples of P. pubens ...
edis.ifas.ufl.edu

Open Directory - Science: Biology: Botany: Dendrology
... 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 ...
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