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Scottish Rock Garden Club (SRGC)

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  • a large Scottish horticultural society founded in Edinburgh in 1933. It promotes the cultivation, study, and preservation of alpine, rock garden, woodland, and bulb plants. Operating as a registered charity, it connects an international community of plant enthusiasts.
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Scottish Horticultural Association 1 0
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Saxifragaceae Juss. (1)
  • a family of flowering plants of mostly perennial herbaceous plants. The members are cosmopolitan in distribution but native primarily to northern cold and temperate regions. Members of the family have leaves that characteristically alternate along the stem and are sometimes deeply lobed or form rosettes.
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Saxifraga Tourn. ex L.
  • a genus (of the family Saxifragaceae) of usually perennial herbs of diverse habit of arctic and temperate regions having pentamerous often showy flowers with a 2-celled ovary followed by a 2-beaked follicle and often having basal tufted leaves
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Saussurea DC.
  • a genus of herbs (family Compositae) found mostly in temperate and cool regions of Eurasia with heads of blue or purple flowers that resemble thistles
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Saurauia Willd.

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  • a plant genus of trees and shrubs (family Actinidiaceae) with toothed parallel-veined leaves and paniculate pentamerous flowers followed by a baccate fruit that is edible in some Mexican species.
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Sapindaceae Juss. (1)
  • the soapberry family of flowering plants (order Sapindales). Its members occur mainly in the tropical and subtropical areas of the world and are especially abundant in the American tropics. A number of species produce wood useful for construction, furniture, or fuel. Several are cultivated as ornamentals or shade trees, and many are well known for their edible fruits.
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Rubiaceae Juss. (1)
  • a family of flowering plants, It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or herb. Commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family.
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