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A horticultural flora, also known as a garden flora, is a plant identification aid structured in the same way as a native plants flora.It serves the same purpose: to facilitate plant identification; however, it only includes plants that are under cultivation as ornamental plants growing within the prescribed climate zone or region.
A horticulture student tending to plants in a garden in Lawrenceville, Georgia, March 2015 The Rock Garden, Leonardslee Gardens. Horticulture is the art and science of growing ornamental plants, fruits, vegetables, flowers, trees and shrubs.
Curtis was praefectus horti (Director, Society of Apothecaries) at the Chelsea Physic Garden and a botanist with a broad knowledge of exotic species. However, Flora Londinensis covered the territory most familiar to him -- the flowering species within a 10-mile radius of London. He commissioned several painters to produce hand-coloured copper ...
1656 Vienna Flora sinensis Michał Piotr Boym (1612-1659) (anonymous artists) 1660 Altdorf [14] Florae Altdorffinae Deliciae Hortenses sive Catalogus Plantarum Horti Medici Moritz Hoffmann (1622–1698) 1669 London Hortus Regius Blesensis Robert Morison (1620–1683) 1670 London Sylva or a Discourse of Forest Trees [15] John Evelyn (1620–1706)
The Garden of Malabar) is a 17th-century Latin botanical treatise documenting the varieties and medicinal properties of the flora of the Malabar coast. This treatise was based on earlier documentation by Itty Achudan. It was compiled in 12 volumes by Hendrik van Rheede, the Governor of Dutch Malabar from 1669 to 1676. [1] Fr.
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The Gardens of Lucullus (Horti Lucullani), on the Pincian Hill in Rome, introduced the Persian garden to Europe around 60 BC. It was seen as a place of peace and tranquillity, a refuge from urban life, and a place filled with religious and symbolic meaning.
Helminthotheca (commonly called ox-tongue) [2] is a genus in the tribe Cichorieae of the family Asteraceae. [3] [4] Helminthotheca is closely related to the genus Picris, both within the Hypochaeridinae subtribe.