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Schinus terebinthifolia is a species of flowering plant in the cashew family, Anacardiaceae, that is native to subtropical and tropical South America. Common names include Brazilian peppertree , [ 2 ] aroeira , rose pepper , broadleaved pepper tree , [ 3 ] wilelaiki (or wililaiki), [ 4 ] Christmasberry tree [ 5 ] and Florida holly . [ 6 ]
Cucurbita foetidissima is a tuberous xerophytic plant found in the central and southwestern United States and northern Mexico. [3] It has numerous common names, but is most commonly called the buffalo gourd in English.
Beginning in 1619, Southern plantation agriculture, using slaves, developed in Virginia and Maryland (where tobacco was grown), and South Carolina (where indigo and rice was grown). Cotton became a major plantation crop after 1800 in the " Black Belt ," and throughout the region from North Carolina in an arc through Texas where the climate ...
Occurs in northern North America, [10] northern Europe and northern Asia. Vaccinium macrocarpon or Oxycoccus macrocarpus (large cranberry, American cranberry, bearberry) It differs from V. oxycoccos in the leaves being larger, 10–20 mm ( 3 ⁄ 8 – 3 ⁄ 4 in) long, and flat, and in the slightly apple-like taste of the berries.
By events of intercontinental dispersals, they reached southern Africa twice and North America at least three times. Two tetraploid lineages expanded rapidly, with the ability to colonize lower belts of the salt marshes than their diploid relatives. Inbreeding and geographical isolation led to a large number of reproductive isolated species ...
The principal known Indian peoples who farmed extensively on the Great Plains when first discovered by European explorers were, from south to north, Caddoans in the Red River drainage, Wichita people along the Arkansas River, Pawnee in the Kansas River and Platte River drainages, and the Arikara, Mandan, and Hidatsa along the Missouri River in ...
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Okra may have been introduced to southeastern North America from Africa in the early 18th century. By 1748, it was being grown as far north as Philadelphia. [18] Thomas Jefferson noted it was well established in Virginia by 1781. It was commonplace throughout the Southern United States by 1800, and the first mention of different cultivars was ...