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The plant's presence can evoke the ambiance of 18th- to 19th-century Spanish colonial and Mexican provincial areas in the Southwestern United States, California, and xeric regions of Mexico. In dry beach gardens in Florida and coastal areas of the Southeastern United States, it is a favored choice for landscaping. [citation needed]
Agave univittata, the thorn-crested century plant or thorn-crested agave, [3] is a plant species native to coastal areas of southern Texas and northeastern Mexico, at elevations less than 100 m (300 feet).
Arnold Arboretum in 1921. The Arboretum was founded in 1872, when the President and Fellows of Harvard College became trustees of a portion of the estate of James Arnold (1781–1868), a whaling merchant from New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Agave americana L. – American Agave, American Century Plant, Century Plant, Maguey americano - Arizona, Texas, Mexico; naturalized in parts of Africa, Eurasia, Australia, South America various islands; Agave amica (Medik.) Thiede & Govaerts – Mexico; Agave andreae Sahagún & A.Vázquez – Mexico (Michoacán) Agave angustiarum Trel. - Mexico
The Bussey Institute (1883–1936) was a respected biological institute at Harvard University. [1] It was named for Benjamin Bussey, who, in 1835, endowed the establishment of an undergraduate school of agriculture and horticulture and donated land in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts that became the Arnold Arboretum.
The materials deposited there are one of the three major sources for the International Plant Names Index. [3] The Botanical museum was founded in 1858. It was originally called the Museum of Vegetable Products and was predominantly focused on an interdisciplinary study of useful plants (i.e. economic botany and horticulture).
He is famous for his long-held role as part of the collaboration between The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Harvard University Herbaria, and the Australian National Herbarium in developing the International Plant Names Index, a database of the names and associated bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns, and lycophytes.
Ernest Henry "Chinese" [1] Wilson (15 February 1876 – 15 October 1930), better known as E. H. Wilson, was a British plant collector and explorer who introduced a large range of about 2,000 Asian plant species to the West; some sixty bear his name.