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that the death of 90 to 95% of the native population of the New World was caused by Old World diseases. Half the native population of Hispaniola in 1518 was...

Gardens, Kew: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Retrieved on 2007-09-08. "Bactris major var. major". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: World Checklist...

plants for nutrients. Oleander is one of the most poisonous plants in the world and contains numerous toxic compounds, many of which can be deadly to people...

some estimates) is produced. California would be the fourth largest producer of wine in the world if it were an independent nation. In 1769, Franciscan...

American wine production) were a country, it would be the fourth largest producer of wine in the world. Major production also occurs in New York state (5%)...

about the Medit. and extensively naturalized in all warmer parts of the world, and 1 in China. Plants of the coolhouse, best planted out in a well-drained...

"pepper", may be found on nearly every dinner table in some parts of the world, often alongside table salt. Pepper contains on average around 35-45% Sodium...

Species of conifers can be found growing naturally in almost all parts of the world, and are frequently dominant plants in their habitats, as in the taiga, for...

(after Kr. Luetke, Russian sea captain, in charge of the fourth Russian voyage around the world). Syn. Eriogynia. Rosaceae. A prostrate and trailing undershrub...

Orquideologia A.C., Mexico, D.F. Hágsater, E. 2004. The genus Epidendrum. Part 4. A fourth century of new species in Epidendrum. Icon. Orchid. 7: pl. 701-800. Epidendrum...

first sometimes in color. The flowers are figured among offerings under the fourth dynasty (3998-3721 B.C.), and the plant is certainly known from the fifth...

of French wine bottles, and was forbidden for almost all AOC wines. New World varietal wines from newcomers like Australia and Chile have made a significant...

genus Colocasia, scattered throughout the tropics and subtropics of the world; cultivated also in many warm regions of the temperate zones, as Egypt, Syria...

Bordeaux as among the four best vintages in the past 45 years or more. The fourth Bordeaux was a 1971, described by the Conseil as "very good". The Bordeaux...

some other closely related cultivated potato species. Potatoes are the world's fourth largest food crop, following rice, wheat, and maize. Potato plants are...

maliformis) are popular for their fruit in certain, localized parts of the world. Wild Maracuja are popular in SE Asia and are the fruit of P. foetida. Banana...

this country in 1596. Garden sorrel, a popular culinary herb in the ancient world and a salad and vegetable plant in the West since the 14th century, is a...

more than one-fourth, while in Mucuna the seeds are nearly circular in outline, flattened, and with the hilum extending at least three-fourths of its circumference...

the most important of the cacti. Although originally confined to the New World, the more important species are now in cultivation or have escaped from cultivation...

feature of ornamental private and public gardens and landscapes in much of the world today. Lawns are created for aesthetic use in gardens, and for recreational...