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Taxodium Mucronatum
''Taxodium mucronatum'', commonly known as Montezuma bald cypress, Montezuma cypress, or ahuehuete, is a species of ''Taxodium'' that is primarily native to Mexico and Guatemala, with a few populations in the southwestern United States. Ahuehuete is derived from the Nahuatl name for the tree, ''āhuēhuētl'', which means "upright drum in water" or "old man of the water." Description It is a large evergreen or semi-evergreen tree growing to tall and with a trunk of diameter (occasionally much more; see below). The leaves are spirally arranged but twisted at the base to lie in two horizontal ranks, long and broad. The cones are ovoid, long and broad. Unlike bald cypress and pond cypress, Montezuma cypress rarely produces cypress knees from the roots. Trees from the Mexican highlands achieve a notable stoutness. One specimen, the Árbol del Tule in Santa María del Tule, Oaxaca, Mexico, is the stoutest tree in the world with a diameter of . Several other specimens from dia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Tenore
Michele Tenore (5 May 1780 – 19 July 1861) was an Italian botanist active in Naples, Italy. Tenore studied at the University of Naples, receiving his medical degree in 1800. Then he was a friend of botanists Domenico Maria Leone Cirillo (1739–1799) and Vincenzo Petagna (1734–1810), made numerous botanical excursions into Abruzzo and particularly Majella, and gave private courses in botany. In 1811, he succeeded Petagna to the university's chair in botany. Tenore helped establish the Botanical Garden of Naples, and became its director in 1810. He also served as president of the Accademia nazionale delle scienze, and served as president of the Accademia Pontaniana The Accademia Pontaniana was the first academy in the modern sense, as a learned society for scholars and humanists and guided by a formal statute. Patronized by Alfonso V of Aragon, it was founded by the poet Antonio Beccadelli in Naples during ... six times from the 1830s through the 1850s. In 1853, he founde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
