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Chapter 14: Links
... "true story" by Henry Donselman, Palm Specialist. Palm (Sugar) Trees Good information on the importance of the 'palm sugar trees', (probably Borassus flabellifer) in Sathingphra Peninsula, Songkhla Province, ... Botanical Names Alphabetical glossary of Latin roots of scientific names. Center for Plant Conservation Headquartered at the Missouri Botanical Garden, this St. Louis, MO, based organization's ...
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Chapter 3: Caryota key
... , Moluccas, New Guinea, NE Australia, Solomon Is. ..…….....................................................................C. rumphiana 8a. Medium sized trees; stem cylindrical or ventricose; leaves distributed along upper 1/4-1/2 ... Group for the IUCN Species Survival Commission Center for Environmental Research and Conservation Columbia University, 1200 Amsterdam Ave., MC 5557 New York, NY 10027 ...
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Chapter 6: Economic importanec and ethnobotany, Article 2
... in cuisine, and some of them died because they are shade adapted and the huge trees that act as their “sunroof” were logged for their precious wood, sending the shade-loving ... consider visiting Costa Rica some day. Javier Martín President of Bosque Protegido S.A., A Conservation Company. And Naturalist Guide. September 1998 Note: For further information, please write the author (click ...
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Chapter 7: Conservation, Article 2
... Conservation, Article 2 Palm Conservation: Its Atecedents, Status, and Needs* by Dennis V. Johnson Palm Tree Resources Worldwide Introduction Palm conservation is a small but integral part of the broader subject of biological conservation ... origins of conservation can be traced back to ancient religious and philosophical beliefs about the relationship between humans and their environment. Trees, for ...
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Calyptronoma rivalis
... Department of Natural Resources issued a directive to protect these palm trees; however, as yet, this species has not been added to ... .R. Little, E., R.O. Woodbury, and F.H. Wadsworth. 1974. Trees of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. USDA Forest Service Handbook ... . 1975. The Rare and Endangered Plants of Puerto Rico. USDA Soil Conservation Service and P.R. Department of Natural Resources. 85 pp. ...
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Virtual Palm Tours
... County and the SJRWMD in 1991. It is now a public conservation area made up of mesic hardwood hammock, pine flatwoods, and coastal ... of both the canopy, which is made up of immense oak trees and ancient cabbage palms, as well as the understory, which is ... recommend taking a couple of hours to walk through the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area. You will not be disappointed! Click on the graphic above ...
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Cycad Evolution: The First Coal Plants
... Forest Preserve District of Cook County George W. Dunne, President Roland F. Eisenbeis, Supt. of Conservation THE FIRST COAL PLANTS Coal has been called "the mainspring" of our civilization. You are ... was the bottom of an ancient swamp, are found the stumps and roots of primitive trees. It appears that some plants became amphibious--able to live in the water or out ...
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Cycad Evolution: "Modern" Coal Plants
... Preserve District of Cook County George W. Dunne, President Roland F. Eisenbeis, Supt. of Conservation "MODERN" COAL PLANTS The Age of Cycads, when those strange tree-like plants predominated ... -- sequoias, junipers, pines and cypress -- and hardwoods including maples, oaks, walnuts, persimmons, sycamores, tulip trees, eucalyptus, and even the breadfruit tree. During the later part of the Cretaceous ...
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Cycad conservation, CITES and Cycads
... diverse habitat with a monoculture of teak trees. All epiphytes, understory shrubs and herbs, and a diversity of trees is wiped out to supply the conservation- conscious temperate dweller. The point is that ... expectations and beliefs of people around the world that this is supposed to be a conservation body, and thus save plants from extinction. It is not. CITES countries merely monitor the ...
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