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1. BOT_220403_002.JPG: Rewild the Friends of the US Botanic Garden Gift Shop
2. BOT_220403_010.JPG: Changing crops to meet challenges
3. BOT_220403_020.JPG: Agriculture connects you to others
4. BOT_220403_046.JPG: Endangered
5. BOT_220403_052.JPG: Orchids Extravagant beauties
6. BOT_220403_084.JPG: Falling for Orchids
7. BOT_220403_092.JPG: Poisonous Plants with Benefits
8. BOT_220403_094.JPG: Discovering Medicinal Plants Testing active ingredients
9. BOT_220403_099.JPG: Pharmaceuticals
10. BOT_220403_107.JPG: Over-the-Counter Medicines
11. BOT_220403_109.JPG: Modern Medicine Ancient origins
12. BOT_220403_114.JPG: Nutritious Poop Within the swollen stems of epiphytic myrmecophytes ... are chambers that ants colonize. These ants have an organized home of living quarters, nurseries, and bathrooms. The plants absorb nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorous, from the ants' frass ("insect poop") in their stems.
13. BOT_220403_120.JPG: Quite a Journey Many plants, like the endangers American sumac (...) make seeds or fruits that must "pass through" an animal before the seeds can germinate. Researchers fed sumac fruits to Northern Bobwhite Quail (...) , recovered the seeds from their poop, and found that the seeds germinated with great success.
14. BOT_220403_124.JPG: Recycled Droppings Manure from cows, horses, goats, and other livestock can be a valuable source of soil nutrients for agricultural crops and home gardens. Raw manure -- fresh animal poop -- is composited with dry ingredients like leaves and straw. Over several months, the mixture breaks down, loses its smell, and becomes ready to use as fertilizer.
15. BOT_220403_129.JPG: Aphid Honey Doo-doo Aphids suck sugary sap from plants and poop out a sweet substance called honeydew. Many bees collect and use honeydew instead of flower nectar to make honey. This is especially common in ecosystems dominated by non-flowering plants, like boreal forests. Some ants even farm aphids, corralling them, grooming them, and protecting them from predators while dining on their poop.
16. BOT_220403_132.JPG: Dine and Deficate Mountain tree shrews (...) are attracted to nectar on the hoods of pitchers of the tropical pitcher plant (...). While licking this nectar, the shrew is perfectly positioned to use the pitcher as a toilet. Rain flushes the poop down into the pitcher, delivering much-needed nutrients to the plants.
17. BOT_220403_140.JPG: Xlerator + HEPA = Hygienic hand drying 99.999% removal of viruses from airstream Time to throw in the towel
18. BOT_220403_147.JPG: Plants of the Desert Living in dry places
19. BOT_220403_160.JPG: Corpse Flower [ It was a humid room so the camera lens fogged up as soon as you entered. ]
20. BOT_220403_171.JPG: I thought the toilet plunger thing was cute. If too much water evaporated, the system would know to refill the pool.
21. BOT_220403_201.JPG: Hawaii's Threatened Plants Can they be saved?
22. BOT_220403_212.JPG: Spores, Cones, Flowers How ancient plants reproduced
23. BOT_220403_221.JPG: Explore the Jurassic Plants of an ancient world
24. BOT_220403_225.JPG: At Home with the Ants [ In a building which doesn't allow ants. ]
25. BOT_220403_237.JPG: Adapt or Die How plants survive
26. BOT_220403_259.JPG: The leaves would close up as you touched them since they fed on insects
27. BOT_220403_271.JPG: Banana Trees Are Not Trees
28. BOT_221124_05.JPG: Nutritious Poop Within the swollen stems of epiphytic myrmecophytes ... are chambers that ants colonize. These ants have an organized home of living quarters, nurseries, and bathrooms. The plants absorb nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorous, from the ants' frass ("insect poop") in their stems.
29. BOT_221124_10.JPG: Quite a Journey Many plants, like the endangers American sumac (...) make seeds or fruits that must "pass through" an animal before the seeds can germinate. Researchers fed sumac fruits to Northern Bobwhite Quail (...) , recovered the seeds from their poop, and found that the seeds germinated with great success.
30. BOT_221124_16.JPG: Recycled Droppings Manure from cows, horses, goats, and other livestock can be a valuable source of soil nutrients for agricultural crops and home gardens. Raw manure -- fresh animal poop -- is composited with dry ingredients like leaves and straw. Over several months, the mixture breaks down, loses its smell, and becomes ready to use as fertilizer.
31. BOT_221124_17.JPG: Aphid Honey Doo-doo Aphids suck sugary sap from plants and poop out a sweet substance called honeydew. Many bees collect and use honeydew instead of flower nectar to make honey. This is especially common in ecosystems dominated by non-flowering plants, like boreal forests. Some ants even farm aphids, corralling them, grooming them, and protecting them from predators while dining on their poop.
32. BOT_221124_21.JPG: Dine and Deficate Mountain tree shrews (...) are attracted to nectar on the hoods of pitchers of the tropical pitcher plant (...). While licking this nectar, the shrew is perfectly positioned to use the pitcher as a toilet. Rain flushes the poop down into the pitcher, delivering much-needed nutrients to the plants.
33. BOT_221124_38.JPG: Water carries nutrients to plants Plants in a nutrient film system are placed in sloping channels, and a thin film of nutrient-rich water is continuously pumped over their roots. This system works well for fast-growing crops like leafy greens.
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Wikipedia Description: United States Botanic Garden
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The United States Botanical Garden (USBG) is a botanic garden on the grounds of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., near Garfield Circle. The U.S. Botanic Garden is supervised by the Congress through the Architect of the Capitol, who is responsible for maintaining the grounds of the United States Capitol. The USBG is open every day of the year, including federal holidays. It is the oldest continually operating botanic garden in the United States.

History

The United States Botanic Garden

The Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences in Washington, D.C., first suggested the creation of a botanic garden in 1816. The idea of establishing a botanic garden in Washington, D.C., was also supported by the Washington Botanical Society, organized in 1817, many of whose members were also members of the Columbian Institute, however this society disbanded in 1826.

In 1820, President James Monroe set aside 5 acres (2.0 hectares) for a "national greenhouse." Dr. Edward Cutbush, founder and first president of the Columbian Institute, was one of the earliest advocates for a plant repository and saw the necessity for a botanical garden "where various seeds and plants could be cultivated, and, as they multiplied, distributed to other parts of the Union."

The tract, which was swamp land, was located next to the Smithsonian Museum and a mere eighty feet from the steps of the Capitol. The land was situated between First and Third streets and Pennsylvania and Maryland avenues on the west side of the Capitol building. It was originally owned by David Burnes, the Scots farmer who owned much of the site of the city of Washington. He had been warned in 1796 that if he chose to plant crops "on the avenue and the Mall", it was at his own risk as something might be done "almost any time" to make a thoroughfare.

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