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Did Estevez find out he had an ancestor buried out on Botany Bay?
Last year he discovered he had an ancestor buried out on Botany Bay. "I was so overwhelmed with emotion, I started to cry seeing my great great grand uncle in a stand-alone grave in the middle of nowhere," continued Estevez. "And nobody knew about him and it was almost like he was forgotten." .
Was Botany Bay a slave plantation?
But centuries ago, it was a plantation home to thousands of slaves. "In the 19th century, what we call Botany Bay today was comprised of two different plantations," said Erin Weeks, the Media and Communication Coordinator for SCDNR.
What was Botany Bay like in the 19th century?
"In the 19th century, what we call Botany Bay today was comprised of two different plantations," said Erin Weeks, the Media and Communication Coordinator for SCDNR. "Sea Cloud Plantation and Plea Cloud Plantation, and they were all managed by the same family and they grew Sea Island." .
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Botanical term
Arachnoid organs, such as leaves or stems, have an external appearance similar to cobwebs – the appearance of being covered with fine, white, usually tangled hairs. This can cause plants to appear grey or white. The arachnoid appearance is common on the leaves and stems of various sclerophyllous members of the family Asteraceae, such as some thistles. The arachnoid appearance of Haworthia arachnoidea arises from the spinescent leaf denticles, and the arachnoid appearance of the cactus Cephalocereus senilis is from long-lasting hairy spines.
In botany
In botany, an awn is either a hair- or bristle-like appendage on a larger structure, or in the case of the Asteraceae, a stiff needle-like element of the pappus.
Exfoliation (botany)
Removal or loss of leaves from a plant
Exfoliation means the removal or loss of leaves from a plant. It is used both to describe the loss of a leaves as a natural part of a plant's life cycle or because of some trauma or outside cause.
A leaflet in botany is a leaf-like part
In botany, the ultimate unit of a compound leaf
A leaflet in botany is a leaf-like part of a compound leaf. Though it resembles an entire leaf, a leaflet is not borne on a main plant stem or branch, as a leaf is, but rather on a petiole or a branch of the leaf. Compound leaves are common in many plant families and they differ widely in morphology. The two main classes of compound leaf morphology are palmate and pinnate. For example, a hemp plant has palmate compound leaves, whereas some species of Acacia have pinnate leaves.
List of mayors of Botany and Botany Bay
People who served as the mayor of the Municipality of Botany and the City of Botany Bay are:
In botany and horticulture
Daughter plant asexually produced on the mother plant
In botany and horticulture, an offset is a small, virtually complete daughter plant that has been naturally and asexually produced on the mother plant. They are clones, meaning that they are genetically identical to the mother plant. They can divide mitotically. In the plant nursery business and gardens, they are detached and grown in order to produce new plants. This is a cheap and simple process for those plants that readily produce offsets as it does not usually require specialist materials and equipment.
