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  2. Category:Flora of France - Wikipedia

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    Category. : Flora of France. WGSRPD code: FRA ( level 3) This category should include plants, native or endemic, found in France, as defined by the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions . This category is a geographical, not political, circumscription. It includes the flora of the Channel Islands and Monaco, but excludes ...

  3. List of Remarkable Gardens of France - Wikipedia

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    It also includes eucalyptus trees and plants from Australia; a water garden with ducks and other water birds; sixty kinds of bamboo; and a rose garden. Quimper – Garden of the Château de Lanniron. The Château de Lanniron was the former palace of the bishop of Quimper. The gardens were created in the 17th century by Monseigneur de Coëtlogon ...

  4. Flora of the Alps - Wikipedia

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    The flora of the Alps are diverse. In the mountains, the vegetation gradually changes with altitude, sun exposure, and location on the mountain. There are five successive life zones, each with distinct landscapes and vegetation characteristics: premontane, montane, subalpine, alpine, and alvar. [citation needed]

  5. List of plants by common name - Wikipedia

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    Chestnut – Castanea spp. Chigger flower – Asclepias tuberosa. Chrysanthemum – Dendranthema grandiflora [ vi], Chrysanthemum morifolium. (True) cinnamon – Cinnamomum verum. Clove – Syzygium aromaticum. Clover – Trifolium spp. Coakum – Phytolacca americana. Coconut – Cocos nucifera. Coffee plant – Coffea spp.

  6. List of plant family names with etymologies - Wikipedia

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    List of plant family names with etymologies. Irises, by . The (from Greek for "rainbow") is in the family . Since the first edition of Carl Linnaeus 's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. [ 1] Related genera are in turn grouped ...

  7. List of Quercus species - Wikipedia

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    Styles short, acorns mature in 18 months, very bitter, inside of acorn shell woolly. [citation needed] Quercus cedrosensis — Cedros Island oak — # California + Baja California. Quercus chrysolepis — canyon live oak — # southwestern North America. Quercus palmeri — Palmer oak — # California, western Arizona.

  8. French formal garden - Wikipedia

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    The French formal garden, also called the jardin à la française ( French for 'garden in the French manner'), is a style of "landscape" garden based on symmetry and the principle of imposing order on nature. Its epitome is generally considered to be the Gardens of Versailles designed during the 17th century by the landscape architect André Le ...

  9. List of plant genus names with etymologies (A–C) - Wikipedia

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    List of plant genus names with etymologies (A–C) Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus 's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. [ 1] Many of these plants are listed in Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners.