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Southwestward view of Recoleta in 2014, overlooking Floralis Genérica and the National Library.. The Recoleta neighborhood is composed of the area limited by Montevideo and Uruguay Streets, Córdoba Avenue, Mario Bravo and Coronel Díaz Streets, Las Heras Avenue, Tagle Street, the F.G.B.M railway, Jerónimo Salguero Street, and by the Río de La Plata or River Plate.
Trees in this genus are either deciduous or evergreen. Certain species, namely H. benthamiana , H. brasiliensis and H. microphylla , bear "winter shoots", stubby side shoots with short internodes, scale leaves on the stem and larger leaves near the tip; on these, the leaves are shed leaving the tree bare before new shoots develop. [ 7 ]
Ficus elastica, the rubber fig, rubber bush, rubber tree, rubber plant, or Indian rubber bush, Indian rubber tree, is a species of flowering plant in the family Moraceae, native to eastern parts of South and Southeast Asia. It has become naturalized in Sri Lanka, the West Indies, and the US state of Florida.
The iconic rubber worker statue is seen in the pre-dawn light in downtown Akron. ... U.S. tire makers depended on natural material from rubber trees that were grown exclusively in Southeast Asia ...
El Ateneo Grand Splendid is a bookshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2008, The Guardian placed it as the second most beautiful bookshop in the world. [ 1 ] In 2019, it was named the "world's most beautiful bookstore" by the National Geographic .
The Nahuatl word for rubber was ulli / olli, from which their word for the ballgame derived), and also their name for the ancient people they associated with the origin of the ballgame, the Olmecs (olmeca: "rubber people"). The Nahuatl word for the tree of Castilla elastica is olicuáhuitl; [4] in Spanish it is known as palo de hule.
The Ateneo de Montevideo was founded as a cultural and educational club on July 3, 1886, with the merger of the Sociedad Universitaria and the Ateneo del Uruguay associations. [2] It began as a free university that sought to break out of the state system dominated by the political changes and religious dogmatism prevailing in Uruguayan society ...
Recoleta railway station (Estación Recoleta) was a railway station in the Recoleta district of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was opened and operated by the Buenos Aires Northern Railway (Ferrocarril del Norte de Buenos Aires) since 1862, as part of the Central Station – Belgrano R line. The railway would later extend to Tigre.