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73001698 [1] Added to NRHP. March 7, 1973 [2] Botany Bay Heritage Preserve & Wildlife Management Area is a state preserve on Edisto Island, South Carolina. Botany Bay Plantation was formed in the 1930s from the merger of the Colonial-era Sea Cloud Plantation and Bleak Hall Plantation. In 1977, it was bequeathed to the state as a wildlife ...
Botany Bay (Dharawal: Kamay) is an open oceanic embayment, [2] located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 13 km (8 mi) south of the Sydney central business district.Its source is the confluence of the Georges River at Taren Point and San Souci as well as the Cooks River at Kyeemagh, which flows 10 km (6 mi) to the east before meeting its mouth at the Tasman Sea, midpoint between the ...
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. [5] The Seed Vault provides long-term storage for duplicates of seeds from around the world, conserved in gene banks.
Deveaux Bank. / 32.549; -80.181. Deveaux Bank is a horseshoe-shaped sand spit island encompassing a 215- acre (87- hectare) bird sanctuary at the mouth of the North Edisto River in Charleston County, South Carolina. [ 1] It is located on the Atlantic Coast between Edisto Island, South Carolina and Seabrook Island, South Carolina.
The Kamay Botany Bay National Park is a heritage-listed protected national park that is located in the eastern part of Botany Bay in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.The 456-hectare (1,130-acre) national park is situated approximately 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) south-east of the Sydney central business district, on the northern and southern headlands of Botany Bay.
Sirmuellera ericifolia (L.f.) Kuntze. Banksia ericifolia, the heath-leaved banksia, [3] or lantern banksia, [4] is a species of woody shrub of the family Proteaceae native to Australia. It grows in two separate regions of Central and Northern New South Wales east of the Great Dividing Range. Well known for its orange or red autumn ...
Captain Cook ate sea celery at Botany Bay and gathered it in bulk along with Lepidium oleraceum at Poverty Bay in New Zealand in October 1769 to protect his crew from scurvy. [1] It was commonly eaten by colonists as a survival food in the early days of the Sydney colony. [2] Both leaf and stem are eaten. Dried leaves are used in native ...
In botany, a seed is a plant embryo and food reserve enclosed in a protective outer covering called a seed coat (testa). More generally, the term "seed" means anything that can be sown, which may include seed and husk or tuber. Seeds are the product of the ripened ovule, after the embryo sac is fertilized by sperm from pollen, forming a zygote.