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Hunt Institute: Charles Fletcher Swingle
... collect milkweed pods for servicemen’s life jackets, as the kapok supply in the Dutch East Indies had been cut off by the Japanese. Swingle supervised the nationwide collection of pods by ...
huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu

Jackfruit, Breadfruit, Osage Orange, Mulberry, Soursop, Sugar Apple, Cherimoya
... the East Indies. Undaunted, he returned to Tahiti on a second voyage and successfully introduced breadfruits into the West Indies in 1793. The infamous breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) introduced from Polynesia into the West Indies ...
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Cauliflory
... the East Indies. Undaunted, he returned to Tahiti on a second voyage and successfully introduced breadfruits into the West Indies in 1793. The infamous breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) introduced from Polynesia into the West Indies ...
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Dilleniidae UW Aberystwyth Botanic Gardens
... Sarraceniaceae, the sundew family Droseraceae, and the East Indian pitcher-plant family Nepenthaceae which contains a single genus Nepenthes with 75 species ranging from the East Indies to Madagascar. Right: Nepenthes alata x ...
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botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Aconite Herb - Profile and Information
... as A. Napellus, but none of them equal in energy the A. ferox of the East Indies, the root of which is used there as an energetic poison under the name of ...
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botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Araroba - Herb Profile and Information
... it was not realized until 1875 that the drug was Brazilian Araroba, and reached the East Indies through Portugal and her colonies. The tree from which it is obtained, Andira Araroba, is ...
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Botanical
... the coastal rainfore... Alpinia These tropical plants are tender perennials from India, China and the East Indies and they have thic... Alstroemeria This group consists of 60 species of perennials, which grow ...
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BREADFRUIT AND THE BOUNTY
... areas of the world, but is probably a native of the East Indies. Its fruit is a large, spherical to oblong fleshy organ ( ... understandably upset when they were forced to sail for the West Indies. After leaving Tahiti on April 4, 1789, with 1015 breadfruit plants ... in very poor tropical areas, such as Brazil and in the East Indies. There is currently much interest in using this plant for many different ...
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Handbook 4
... Germany in 1628, he came to work as a soldier and administrator for the Dutch East-Indies Company. From the mid-1600s until his death on the Indonesian island of Ambon in ...
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Open Directory - Society: History: By Time Period: Seventeenth Century
... Orleans - Versailles Etiquette - A letter with an obsessive concern of manners. England, India, and The East Indies - An attempt to dislodge the Dutch in 1617. The Great Fire of London - Scans of ...
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