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Bottle Palm
''Hyophorbe lagenicaulis'', the bottle palm or palmiste gargoulette, is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. It is native to Round Island, Mauritius. Description Bottle palm has a large swollen (sometimes bizarrely so) trunk. It is a myth that the trunk is a means by which the palm stores water. Bottle palms have only four to six leaves open at any time. The leaves of young palms have a red or orange tint, but a deep green is assumed at maturity. The flowers of the palm arise from under the crownshaft. This species is often confused with its relative, the Spindle Palm, which also has a swollen trunk. But the Spindle palm's trunk swells in the middle (resembling the shape of a spindle), whereas the trunk of the Bottle palm swells from near the base and tapers further up. Its inflorescence branches in 4 orders, and its 2.5 cm fruits can be orange or black. The trunk of both species becomes more and more slender as the palm ages. On Mauritius, the only ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey (March 15, 1858 – December 25, 1954) was an American horticulturist and reformer of rural life. He was cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science.Makers of American Botany, Harry Baker Humphrey, Ronald Press Company, Library of Congress Card Number 61-18435 As an energetic reformer during the Progressive Era, he was instrumental in starting agricultural extension services, the 4-H movement, the nature study movement, parcel post and rural electrification. He was considered the father of rural sociology and rural journalism. Biography Born in South Haven, Michigan, as the third son of farmers Liberty Hyde Bailey Sr. and Sarah Harrison Bailey. In 1876 Bailey met Lucy Millington who encouraged his interest in botany and mentored him. Bailey entered the Michigan Agricultural College (MAC, now Michigan State University) in 1877 and graduated in 1882 (he had taken a year off from study for health reasons). The next year, he became assistant to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Emery Moore
Harold Emery Moore, Jr. (July 7, 1917 – October 27, 1980) was an American botanist especially known for his work on the systematics of the palm family. He served as Director of the L. H. Bailey Hortorium at Cornell University, and was appointed Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Botany in 1978. He was an important contributor to '' Hortus Third'' and was founding editor of the palm journal ''Principes'' (now ''Palms''). He also edited '' Gentes Herbarum'' and provided the foundation for the first edition of ''Genera Palmarum'', a seminal work on palm taxonomy which was later completed by Natalie Uhl and John Dransfield. Early life and education Moore was born in Massachusetts in 1917. He received his B.S. from Massachusetts State College in 1939. He then moved to Harvard University where he obtained his M.S. in 1940 and Ph.D. in 1942. After graduating, he served in the United States Army from 1942 to 1946. Career In 1947, he joined the staff of the Gray Herbarium at Harva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flowering Plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants that produce their seeds enclosed within a fruit. They are by far the most diverse group of land plants with 64 orders, 416 families, approximately 13,000 known genera and 300,000 known species. Angiosperms were formerly called Magnoliophyta (). Like gymnosperms, angiosperms are seed-producing plants. They are distinguished from gymnosperms by characteristics including flowers, endosperm within their seeds, and the production of fruits that contain the seeds. The ancestors of flowering plants diverged from the common ancestor of all living gymnosperms before the end of the Carboniferous, over 300 million years ago. The closest fossil relatives of flowering plants are uncertain and contentious. The earliest angiosperm fossils ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arecaceae
The Arecaceae is a family of perennial flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales. Their growth form can be climbers, shrubs, tree-like and stemless plants, all commonly known as palms. Those having a tree-like form are called palm trees. Currently, 181 genera with around 2,600 species are known, most of which are restricted to tropical and subtropical climates. Most palms are distinguished by their large, compound, evergreen leaves, known as fronds, arranged at the top of an unbranched stem. However, palms exhibit an enormous diversity in physical characteristics and inhabit nearly every type of habitat within their range, from rainforests to deserts. Palms are among the best known and most extensively cultivated plant families. They have been important to humans throughout much of history. Many common products and foods are derived from palms. In contemporary times, palms are also widely used in landscaping. In many historical cultures, because of their importance as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Round Island (Mauritius)
Round Island or île Ronde may refer to: Australia * Round Island (Queensland), Frankland Islands * Round Island (Tasmania), Hogan Group, northern Bass Strait Canada * Round Island, Nova Scotia * Round Island (Nunavut) (two: Coutts Inlet, Baffin Bay, and Cross Bay, Chesterfield Inlet; there is also a Round Rocks Island) * Île Ronde (Îles Laval), in the Rivière des Prairies, Quebec China * Robert Island (Paracel Islands), also known as Round Island, occupied by China (PRC) and also claimed by Taiwan (ROC) and Vietnam France * île Ronde, Brest, in the roadstead of Brest Hong Kong * Round Island or Pak Sha Chau (白沙洲), in North District * Round Island, Hong Kong or Ngan Chau (銀洲), in Southern District Mauritius * île Ronde, Mauritius, an islet on the coast of Mauritius * Bolyeriidae, also known as the ''Round Island boas'' * Round Island day gecko Seychelles * Round Island, Mahé * Round Island, Praslin United Kingdom * Round Island (Dorse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mauritius
Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label=Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It includes the main island (also called Mauritius), as well as Rodrigues, Agaléga and St. Brandon. The islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues, along with nearby Réunion (a French overseas department), are part of the Mascarene Islands. The main island of Mauritius, where most of the population is concentrated, hosts the capital and largest city, Port Louis. The country spans and has an exclusive economic zone covering . Arab sailors were the first to discover the uninhabited island, around 975, and they called it ''Dina Arobi''. The earliest discovery was in 1507 by Portuguese sailors, who otherwise took little interest in the islands. The Dutch took possession in 1598, establishing a succession of short-lived settlements over a period of about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyophorbe Lagenicaulis Stem And Roots
''Hyophorbe'' is a genus of five known species of flowering plants in the family Arecaceae, native to the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean. All five species can attain heights of over 6 meters, and two of the species develop swollen trunks that have made them popular as ornamentals, but all of them are endangered in the wild. It contains the following species: # ''Hyophorbe amaricaulis'' Mart. – Mauritius, 1 individual left # ''Hyophorbe indica'' Gaertn. (palmiste poison) – Réunion # ''Hyophorbe lagenicaulis'' (L.H.Bailey) H.E.Moore (bottle palm) – Mauritius # ''Hyophorbe vaughanii'' L.H.Bailey – Mauritius # ''Hyophorbe verschaffeltii'' H.Wendl. (palmiste marron) – Rodrigues Island Species galleryC.Lewis, Barboza, N. (2000). ''ldentity of the Hyophorbe Palms at the Botanical Garden of Cienfuegos, Cuba'' Palms 44. p.95. File:Hyophorbe-amaricaulis.JPG, The last surviving specimen of ''Hyophorbe amaricaulis''. This species has a slender, unswollen trunk. File:Hyoph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyophorbe
''Hyophorbe'' is a genus of five known species of flowering plants in the family Arecaceae, native to the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean. All five species can attain heights of over 6 meters, and two of the species develop swollen trunks that have made them popular as ornamentals, but all of them are endangered in the wild. It contains the following species: # ''Hyophorbe amaricaulis'' Mart. – Mauritius, 1 individual left # '' Hyophorbe indica'' Gaertn. (palmiste poison) – Réunion # '' Hyophorbe lagenicaulis'' (L.H.Bailey) H.E.Moore (bottle palm) – Mauritius # '' Hyophorbe vaughanii'' L.H.Bailey – Mauritius # '' Hyophorbe verschaffeltii'' H.Wendl. (palmiste marron) – Rodrigues Island Species galleryC.Lewis, Barboza, N. (2000). ''ldentity of the Hyophorbe Palms at the Botanical Garden of Cienfuegos, Cuba'' Palms 44. p.95. File:Hyophorbe-amaricaulis.JPG, The last surviving specimen of ''Hyophorbe amaricaulis ''Hyophorbe amaricaulis'' (also known as the "loneli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyophorbe Vaughanii
''Hyophorbe vaughanii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae that is endemic to Mauritius. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. Description The plant has prominent rings on the trunk and arch-like leaves, both of which make it differ from other species. Its trunk is slender, and does not swell up as some of its relatives do. Unlike the other ''Hyophorbe'' species, its foliage has an orange tint. Its inflorescence is also simpler, and only branches into three orders, a character shared only with the last remaining specimen of ''Hyophorbe amaricaulis''. Its fruits are orange or reddish brown, and 4.4–5 cm long (by far the largest of the genus).C.Lewis, Barboza, N. (2000). ''ldentity of the Hyophorbe Palms at the Botanical Garden of Cienfuegos, Cuba'' Palms 44. p.95. Distribution There is only a single 'wild' population in the world, occurring on the island of Mauritius. Conservation efforts have enabled reintroductions of this crit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florida
Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Straits of Florida and Cuba; it is the only state that borders both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Spanning , Florida ranks 22nd in area among the 50 states, and with a population of over 21 million, it is the third-most populous. The state capital is Tallahassee, and the most populous city is Jacksonville. The Miami metropolitan area, with a population of almost 6.2 million, is the most populous urban area in Florida and the ninth-most populous in the United States; other urban conurbations with over one million people are Tampa Bay, Orlando, and Jacksonville. Various Native American groups have inhabited Florida for at least 14,000 years. In 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León became the first k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawaii
Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only state geographically located within the tropics. Hawaii comprises nearly the entire Hawaiian archipelago, 137 volcanic islands spanning that are physiographically and ethnologically part of the Polynesian subregion of Oceania. The state's ocean coastline is consequently the fourth-longest in the U.S., at about . The eight main islands, from northwest to southeast, are Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Lānai, Kahoolawe, Maui, and Hawaii—the last of these, after which the state is named, is often called the "Big Island" or "Hawaii Island" to avoid confusion with the state or archipelago. The uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands make up most of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, the United States' largest protected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beaucarnea
''Beaucarnea'' is a genus of flowering plants native to Mexico and Central America. In the APG III classification system, it is placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Nolinoideae (formerly the family Ruscaceae). ''Beaucarnea'' is sometimes treated as a synonym of the genus ''Nolina'', with the species being then transferred to that genus. However, recent research shows that ''Beaucarnea'' should be treated as an independent genus. The species are small tropical xerophytic trees growing to 6–10 m tall, with a trunk 20–40 cm diameter with a flared base; young plants are single-stemmed, branching only after flowering. The leaves are evergreen, linear, strap-shaped, 0.5-1.8 m long and 1.5–2 cm broad, leathery in texture, with a finely serrated margin. The flowers are produced only on old trees, forming on large panicles 75–110 cm long, the individual flowers numerous but very small (1.5 mm diameter), greenish-white, with six tepal A tepal is on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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