Vestibule: Botany

The Botany, of Greek βοτάνη (grass), is the science that takes care of vegetables. The vegetable concept, that was clear in the days of Aristotle, has been blurred by the development of the knowledge, so that it is defined as well for being the object of study of the Botany. Actually the botanists study the plants, the seaweed and the fungi. In the field of the Botany it is necessary to distinguish between a pure Botany, whose object is to extend the knowledge of the Nature, and a applied Botany, whose investigations are to the agrarian technology service, forest, pharmaceutical…

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Hemerocallis L. is a sort of plants grasses, perennial and rizomatosas pertaining to the Hemerocallidaceae family who contains around 15 original species of Asia.

“Irises by day” is the more frequent common name with the one than they are designated to the species of Hemerocallis and you will cultivate to them obtained from them. That common name makes reference to the fact that the flowers of the majority of the species of Hemerocallis they abren his tépalos to the dawn and they are marchitan to the dusk, reason why each flower does not last more than a day. However, once withered, each flower is replaced on the other in the same stem on the following day, reason why the period of flowering of a same plant is very long. Some species abren their flowers at night, those that are marchitan to the dawn of the following day.

The plants of this sort are used mainly with great profusion in gardening in the landscaper, to cover relatively great surfaces with great a colorful one and very under maintenance because it is rustic species. They are not used frequently in floral adjustments by the little life of each flower, although once a withered flower is continued abriendo new flowers in the same stem cut during several days.

The flowers of some species are foods and, in fact, hemerocalis is cultivated for this intention in some Asian countries, like for example, in China.Las flowers are sold in fresh the Asian markets as as much dry, denominating them compass sea breams. They are used in the soups (hot and bitter soup) and in pig MOO shu. The buds of the leaves, young leaves and of tubercles of some species (but not all) are foods.

The tépalos of the iris by day are delicious when they eat directly after the flowering and are a very good source of iron and vitamin A. Its range of flavors varies of sharp to afrutado as peach and its dulzura must to the nectar presence in the base of perigonio.

Absolute certainty that hemerocalis or iris is due to have by day that is tried to consume is not a true iris (the irises or lilies belong to the Lilium sort, Liliaceae family), because the flowers of this last species can be very toxic.

The different species from Hemerocallis were used by more than 4000 years by the towns of the Far East like food, medicine or like ornamental plants. The first units of the sort were introduced in Europe by the explorers who traveled to East at about the middle of Century XVI. During centuries they were multiplied and cultivated in all Europe like ornamental plants, staying the own characteristics of each species.

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Another one of its projects, is the coordinated system of parks older public and avenues of the country, of Buffalo, New York; the older state park of the country: the Reserve of the Cataracts of the Niágara, in Niagara Falls, New York; the Park Mont-Royal, Montreal; the Emerald Necklace, in Boston, Massachusetts; the Cherokee Park (besides the system of avenues) in Louisville, Kentucky; as well as the Jackson Park, Washington Park and the Midway Plaisance in for the World's Columbian Exposition de Chicago; part of the park of Detroit Belle Isle; the gardens of the Capitol of the Member States; and the building of George Washington Vanderbilt II, the Biltmore Estate, in Carolina of the North.

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It name if nescis, perit ET cognitio rerum.

(If you ignore the name of the things, also disappears what you know of them)

Carl von Linné in 1755.

To realize an overhaul of grammar, spelling and style of the Botanical article.

To make specific the structure of this vestibule.

To agree criteria for the article processing of species (to see wikiproyecto).

To extend the botany outlines.

To make articles of pending botanists.

To make articles of the pending families.

To add “taxobox” to the articles that have not yet it (to see wikiproyecto).

To raise Commons images of species that lack (to see listing).

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