Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. An internationally important botanical research and education institution, it employs 1,100 staff. Its board of trustees is chaired by Dame Amelia Fawcett.
Bree is a fictional village in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, east of the Shire. Bree-land, which contains Bree and a few other villages, is the only place where Hobbits and Men lived side by side. It was inspired by the name of the Buckinghamshire village of Brill, meaning "hill-hill", which Tolkien visited regularly in his early years at the University of Oxford, and informed by his passion for linguistics.
Chrysobalanaceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of trees and shrubs in 27 genera and about 700 species of pantropical distribution with a centre of diversity in the Amazon. Some of the species contain silica in their bodies for rigidity and so the mesophyll often has sclerenchymatous idioblasts. The widespread species Chrysobalanus icaco produces a plum-like fruit and the plant is commonly known as the coco plum.
Sir Ghillean Tolmie Prance is a prominent British botanist and ecologist who has published extensively on the taxonomy of families such as Chrysobalanaceae and Lecythidaceae, but drew particular attention in documenting the pollination ecology of Victoria amazonica. Prance is a former Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Barringtonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lecythidaceae first described as a genus with this name in 1775. It is native to Africa, southern Asia, Australia, and various islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The genus name commemorates Daines Barrington.
Corythophora labriculata is a species of woody plant in the Lecythidaceae family. It is found only in Suriname.
Atuna is a genus of plants in the family Chrysobalanaceae described as a genus in 1838. It is native to the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and various islands of the western Pacific.
Hirtella is a genus of 110 species of woody trees in family Chrysobalanaceae. It was first described as a genus by Linnaeus in 1753. Hirtella naturally occurs in tropical forests throughout Latin America, the West Indies, southeast Africa, and Madagascar. The flowers are mainly pollinated by butterflies.
Hunga is a genus of plants in the family Chrysobalanaceae, described as a genus in 1979.
Magnistipula is a genus of plant in family Chrysobalanaceae described as a genus in 1905.
Parinari is a genus of plant in the family Chrysobalanaceae.
Rhaptopetalum is a genus of plants in the family Lecythidaceae.
Atuna excelsa subsp. racemosa, synonym Atuna racemosa, is a tree in the family Chrysobalanaceae. The epithet racemosa is from the Latin meaning "clustered", referring to the inflorescence. The tree is widely known as tabon-tabon in the Philippines, where the fruits have been traditionally used for the preparation of kinilaw for almost a thousand years.
Angelesia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Chrysobalanaceae.
Geobalanus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Chrysobalanaceae.
Leptobalanus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Chrysobalanaceae.
Microdesmia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Chrysobalanaceae.
Moquilea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Chrysobalanaceae.
Parinariopsis is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Chrysobalanaceae. The only species is Parinariopsis licaniiflora.
