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The Botanical Garden

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The Milanes Villa Miami, Florida

Mrs. Milanes and I bought that Villa in 1970, our three sons were raised there with the conv enience of having the Elementary School ( Blue Lake ) 2 blocks East, Juniot High (Glades) is about 7 blocks South, and the High SGhool 8 blocks Northeast

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Bahana Musa nana Linn - Mussa spp. Linn

Banana is natine of southeast Asia. Reach Africa very early probably taken by the Indonesian or the Arab in the 16th Gen tury .The portuguese introduced it to the Canary Island. Ano the Spanish to the Americas. The bananas are 1 ong, finger-like,and slightly curved upward,with a smooth,yellow or purple skin and soft, .The fruit are arrenged in c lusters of 10 to 20 or more bananas on stems of bunches of 3 to 8 hands Leaves are very large to 8 feet,blunt, and sometimes tutterd along the edges. The flawer bud is reddish-purple,large and pointed. Bananas mature fruit only in warm southern Florida.There are sever al types of bananas in the backyard of the Villa; Thousand finger, Thousand Fingers, Ice Cream,Cuban .Red,Pysang Raja,PitQga, Praying Hands donated by Mrs peggy Wood

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Sugarcane- Sacharum oficinalis Linn

Su garcane is a tropical grass native of Asia where it has been grown in garden for over 4000 years. It is the product of in terbreeding tour spices of the Saccharum genus and is a giant, robust sugar planto Methods for manufactoring sugar from sugarcane were developed in India about 400 BC. Colombus brought the plant to the West Indies, and today sugarcane is cultivated in trapical and subtropical regions throughout the world. Over 63% of the world sugar comes from sugarcane. We have tour bushes. My father, back in the 40's, had a sugarcane plantation in the Sugar Mill known as Macareno in the south of Camaguey Province in Cuba.

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Cherimoya-Annona Cherimola Linn

This t ropical fruit is the best of the Annonas. It is an small tree that prefer sun. A seedling will bear fruit in 4 to 5 years. The fruit is 4 to 6" long general conical to round with 3 to 4" in diameter, the sk in is smooth with some marks, yellowish to dark-yellow when ripe. The pulp is white, sweet, aromatic and delicious. There is one tree about 14" high in the Villa. By the way, 1 was told by an employee of the Fruit and Spice Park in Homestead, that Cherimoya does not grow in Miami area!!

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Grapes- Vitis rotundifolia Linn - Vitis vinif era Linn

Grapes grow in bunches or clusters on woody vines. Fruits may be green,red,purple, or yellows when ripe.Individual grapes are round or oval,thin-skinned and juice,except that muscadine grapes are thick-skinned. Seeds are few or absent,small round and citen potnted at one end. Leaf shapes vary with type but usually large,roundish to hert-shaped often lobed, with serrate margins. Both wild and cultivated grapes can be grown in Florida

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Mango- Mangifera Indica Linn

Mangos have been cultivated in India for over 4000 years, gradually mangos were distributed throughtout Africa, Asia and the Americas. Mango s were successfully introduced in Mi9mi,Florida in 1863. The first cornmercial variety selected was Haden Mapgo. Today, mang o producer include India, Mexico y Brazil.Otros important producer include Australia, Israel and USA. Mangos are variables in size and shape, which~ay be flattened,oval or S-shaped, and and the color may be gfeenish-yellow,yellow with red or purple, bl ush or red.The skin is thigt,thick and smooth.The single seed is large,flat and woody.Leaves are long and narrow,with prominent mid and lateral veis. The tree is medium to large evergreen with a symetrical rouded canopy.

Paleontologic specimen

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A 65,000,000 years old Fossil

Paleontólogy had been one of my interest.One day, I was digging a ditch in the back of the Villa, when I saw something different. After getting and cleaning it and showing it to everybody. I took the specimen to the Natural Museum of Science in DC. The Curator; after examining and dating the fossil, told me that the Gastropod was extinct about 65 million years ago. I was so proud of my discovery!!.

Last Updated January 15 2005

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