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Blair Elephant
  • refers Patrick Blair's work relating to the dissection an elephant that died on 27 April 1706 in Scotland. The elephant was touring the UK at the time of its death.
  • The elephant first appears in historical records in October 1688, in the accounts for the annual Michaelmas Fair at Leipzig in Saxony.
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birds

Use for: bird, Aves

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Bignoniaceae Juss.
  • The trumpet creeper or catalpa family of flowering plants. Contains species of trees, shrubs, and, most commonly, vines, chiefly of tropical America, tropical Africa, and the Indo-Malayan region. They form an important part of tropical forest ecosystems because of their numerous climbing vines.
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Betulaceae Gray (1)

Use for: birch

  • a plant family of woody flowering plants. Commonly known as the birch family.
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Bergenia Moench
  • a genus of perennial spring-blooming herbs (family Saxifragaceae) native to central and eastern Asia that have large thick rootstocks which produce typical colonies or clumps of plants with very thick heavy leaves
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Berberis L.

Use for: Mahonia Nutt.

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Berberidaceae Juss.
  • Family of flowering plants, comprising of perennial herbs and shrubs. Its members occur in most temperate regions of the world. Many of the shrub forms have spines or spiny-margined leaves. The form of the flower is highly variable.
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Benmore Botanic Garden

Use for: Younger Botanic Garden, Benmore Younger Botanic Garden

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Bambusoideae Luerss.

Use for: bamboo

  • Bamboo. Subfamily of tall treelike grasses of the family Poaceae, comprising more than 115 genera and 1,400 species. Bamboos are distributed in tropical and subtropical to mild temperate regions, with the heaviest concentration and largest number of species in East and Southeast Asia and on islands of the Indian and Pacific oceans. A few species of the genus Arundinaria are native to the southern United States, where they form dense canebrakes along riverbanks and in marshy areas.
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Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl
  • A large family comprising of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees distributed throughout the world. Known as the aster, daisy, or composite family,
  • Asteraceae is one of the largest plant families, second only to Orchidaceae.
  • Paleobotanists suggest that the first members of this family may have evolved in Argentina some 50 million years ago, based on the discovery of well-preserved fossils that date to the Eocene Epoch (56 million to 33.9 million years ago).
  • Asteraceae is important primarily for its many garden ornamentals, such as ageratums, asters, chrysanthemums, cosmos, dahlias, marigolds (Tagetes), and zinnias.
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