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Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

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Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is an botanic garden, with extensive collections of rare tropical plants including palms, cycads, flowering trees, and vines. [1]

44 relations: Adansonia, Alfalfa, American Orchid Society, Arecaceae, Autumn, Bamboo, Botanical garden, Botany, Cantaloupe, Central America, Cherry, Coral Gables, Florida, Cycad, Daisy Youngblood, Dale Chihuly, Date palm, David Fairchild, Fernando Botero, Florida, Franz West, Frederick Law Olmsted, Heliconius, Horseradish, Landscape, List of botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States, Mango, Mark Dion, Matheson Hammock Park, Max Strang, Miami, Miami–Dade County, Florida, Michele Oka Doner, Morpho, Nature, Owl butterfly, Patricia van Dalen, Peach, Robert Hiester Montgomery, Roy Lichtenstein, South America, United States, United States Department of Agriculture, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Yayoi Kusama.

Adansonia

Adansonia is a genus of deciduous trees known as baobabs.

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Alfalfa

Alfalfa, Medicago sativa also called lucerne, is a perennial flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae cultivated as an important forage crop in many countries around the world.

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American Orchid Society

The American Orchid Society (AOS) is a horticultural society for education, conservation, and research of orchids.

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Arecaceae

The Arecaceae are a botanical family of perennial trees, climbers, shrubs, and acaules commonly known as palm trees (owing to historical usage, the family is alternatively called Palmae).

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Autumn

Autumn, also known as fall in American and Canadian English, is one of the four temperate seasons.

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Bamboo

The bamboos are evergreen perennial flowering plants in the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae.

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Botanical garden

A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms botanic and botanical and garden or gardens are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word botanic is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens.

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science(s), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Cantaloupe

Cantaloupe (muskmelon, mushmelon, rockmelon, sweet melon) or spanspek (South Africa) is a variety of the Cucumis melo species in the Cucurbitaceae family.

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Central America

Central America (América Central, Centroamérica) is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with the South American continent on the southeast.

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Cherry

A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus, and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit).

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Coral Gables, Florida

Coral Gables, officially the City of Coral Gables, is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, located southwest of Downtown Miami.

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Cycad

Cycads are seed plants with a long fossil history that were formerly more abundant and more diverse than they are today.

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Daisy Youngblood

Daisy Youngblood (born 1945) is an American modern sculptor and ceramic artist.

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Dale Chihuly

Dale Chihuly (born September 20, 1941) is an American glass sculptor and entrepreneur.

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Date palm

Phoenix dactylifera, commonly known as date or date palm, is a flowering plant species in the palm family, Arecaceae, cultivated for its edible sweet fruit.

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David Fairchild

David Grandison Fairchild (April 7, 1869 – August 6, 1954) was an American botanist and plant explorer.

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Fernando Botero

Fernando Botero Angulo (born 19 April 1932) is a Colombian figurative artist and sculptor.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Franz West

Franz West (16 February 1947 – 25 July 2012) was an Austrian artist.

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Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator.

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Heliconius

Heliconius comprises a colorful and widespread genus of brush-footed butterflies commonly known as the longwings or heliconians.

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Horseradish

Horseradish (Armoracia rusticana, syn. Cochlearia armoracia) is a perennial plant of the family Brassicaceae (which also includes mustard, wasabi, broccoli, and cabbage).

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Landscape

A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms and how they integrate with natural or man-made features.

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List of botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States

This list is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States.

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Mango

Mangoes are juicy stone fruit (drupe) from numerous species of tropical trees belonging to the flowering plant genus Mangifera, cultivated mostly for their edible fruit.

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Mark Dion

Mark Dion (born August 28, 1961) is an American conceptual artist.

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Matheson Hammock Park

Matheson Hammock Park is a urban park in metropolitan Miami at 9610 Old Cutler Road, just south of Coral Gables, Florida.

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Max Strang

Max Strang (born November 18, 1970) is the founding principal of Architecture, a Miami-based firm acclaimed for its site-specific and climate-driven designs.

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Miami

Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.

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Miami–Dade County, Florida

Miami-Dade County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Michele Oka Doner

Michele Oka Doner (born 1945, Miami Beach, Florida, United States) is an American artist and author.

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Morpho

The morpho butterflies comprise many species of Neotropical butterfly under the genus Morpho.

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Nature

Nature, in the broadest sense, is the natural, physical, or material world or universe.

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Owl butterfly

The owl butterflies, the genus Caligo, are known for their huge eyespots, which resemble owls' eyes.

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Patricia van Dalen

Patricia Van Dalen (born in 1955 in Venezuela, with Dutch roots), is a Miami based visual artist, with a career that spans over thirty five years, dedicated to abstract painting, ephemeral site-specific installations, and designing permanent works for public places and private architectural spaces.

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Peach

The peach (Prunus persica) is a deciduous tree native to the region of Northwest China between the Tarim Basin and the north slopes of the Kunlun Mountains, where it was first domesticated and cultivated.

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Robert Hiester Montgomery

Robert Hiester Montgomery (September 21, 1872 – May 2, 1953) was an American accountant and educator, and co-founders of what is today the world's largest accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Fox Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist.

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South America

South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Department of Agriculture

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), also known as the Agriculture Department, is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, and food.

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Ursula von Rydingsvard

Ursula von Rydingsvard is a contemporary artist who creates distinctive, often large scale sculptures of wood, bronze, and other materials that are installed and exhibited globally in museums, galleries, sculpture parks, and public spaces.

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Yayoi Kusama

is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, but is also active in painting, performance, film, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Tropical_Botanic_Garden

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