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Cantua buxifolia

Index Cantua buxifolia

Cantutas in Taquile Island, Lake Titicaca, Peru. Cantua buxifolia, (hispanicized spellings cantuta, cantu), known as qantu, qantus or qantuta (Quechua) is a flowering plant found in the high valleys of the Yungas of the Andes mountains in western South America. [1]

23 relations: Altiplano, Award of Garden Merit, Binomial nomenclature, Bolivia, Buxus, Coricancha, Evergreen, Flag of Bolivia, Flowering plant, Heliconia rostrata, Illampu, Illimani, Inca Empire, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Lake Titicaca, Pachamama, Peru, Quechuan languages, Qullasuyu, Royal Horticultural Society, Sepal, Spanish language, Yungas.

Altiplano

The Altiplano (Spanish for "high plain"), Collao (Quechua and Aymara: Qullaw, meaning "place of the Qulla"), Andean Plateau or Bolivian Plateau, in west-central South America, is the area where the Andes are the widest.

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Award of Garden Merit

The Award of Garden Merit (AGM) is a long-established annual award for plants by the British Royal Horticultural Society (RHS).

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Binomial nomenclature

Binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system") also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.

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Bolivia

Bolivia (Mborivia; Buliwya; Wuliwya), officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia (Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia), is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.

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Buxus

Buxus is a genus of about 70 species in the family Buxaceae.

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Coricancha

Coricancha, Koricancha, Qoricancha or Qorikancha (from Quechua quri gold; kancha enclosure) was the most important temple in the Inca Empire.

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Evergreen

In botany, an evergreen is a plant that has leaves throughout the year, always green.

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Flag of Bolivia

The national flag of Bolivia was originally adopted in 1851.

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Flowering plant

The flowering plants, also known as angiosperms, Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants, with 416 families, approximately 13,164 known genera and c. 295,383 known species.

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Heliconia rostrata

Heliconia rostrata (also known as hanging lobster claw or false bird of paradise) is an herbaceous perennial native to Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Ecuador, and naturalized in Puerto Rico.

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Illampu

Illampu is the fourth highest mountain in Bolivia.

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Illimani

Illimani (Aymara) is the highest mountain in the Cordillera Real (part of the Cordillera Oriental, a subrange of the Andes) of western Bolivia.

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Inca Empire

The Inca Empire (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu, "The Four Regions"), also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire, was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America, and possibly the largest empire in the world in the early 16th century.

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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist.

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Lake Titicaca

Lake Titicaca (Lago Titicaca, Titiqaqa Qucha) is a large, deep lake in the Andes on the border of Bolivia and Peru.

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Pachamama

Pachamama is a goddess revered by the indigenous people of the Andes.

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Peru

Peru (Perú; Piruw Republika; Piruw Suyu), officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America.

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Quechuan languages

Quechua, usually called Runasimi ("people's language") in Quechuan languages, is an indigenous language family spoken by the Quechua peoples, primarily living in the Andes and highlands of South America.

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Qullasuyu

Qullasuyu (Qullasuyu and Quechua, qulla south, Qulla a people, suyu region, part of a territory, each of the four regions which formed the Inca Empire, "southern region", Hispanicized spellings Collasuyu, Kholla Suyu) was the southeastern provincial region of the Inca Empire.

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Royal Horticultural Society

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), founded in 1804 as the Horticultural Society of London, is the UK's leading gardening charity.

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Sepal

A sepal is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants).

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Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

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Yungas

The Yungas (Aymara yunka warm or temperate Andes or earth, Quechua yunka warm area on the slopes of the Andes) is a narrow band of forest along the eastern slope of the Andes Mountains from Peru, Bolivia, and northern Argentina.

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References

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

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