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Benmore Botanic Garden

Use for: Younger Botanic Garden, Benmore Younger Botanic Garden

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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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Betulaceae Gray (1)

Use for: birch

  • a plant family of woody flowering plants. Commonly known as the birch family.
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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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birds

Use for: bird, Aves

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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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Boraginaceae Juss. (1)

Use for: Borage

  • A family of herbs, shrubs, or trees (order Polemoniales) of wide distribution distinguished mainly by circinate inflorescence and nutlike fruit. Commonly known as the forget-me-not family.
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Botanic Cottage
  • The Botanic Cottage originally stood at the entrance to a long lost incarnation of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), across the city on Leith Walk. It was built in 1764-5, was both the home of the principal gardener and the main entrance to the Garden. It contained a classroom where every medical student was taught botany during the height of the Scottish Enlightenment. In 2016, it was moved stone by stone across Edinburgh, and rebuilt in our Demonstration Garden, where schools, students and community groups have plots. It was rebuilt with all of the stones and timbers going back in the correct places, and finished so that it looks as good as it did 250 years ago.
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