Diomy Milanes Cytologist. In 1993 painted cytologic cellular changes in Pap smears from feminine reproductive system

The Botanical Garden

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Banana Musa nana Linn - Mussa spp. Linn

Banana is native of southeast Asia. Reach Africa very early probably taken by the Indonesian or the Arab in the 16th century. The Portuguese introduced it to the Canary Island,and the Spanish to the Americas. The bananas are 1 long, finger-like,and slightly curved upward,with a smooth,yellow or purple skin and soft, .The fruit are arranged in clusters 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 glutted along the edges. The flower 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.

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Sugarcane - Sacharum oficinalis Linn

Sugar cane is a tropical grass native of Asia where it has been grown in garden for over 4000 years. It is the product of interbreeding two spices of the Saccharum genus and is a giant, robust sugar plant Methods for manufacturing sugar from sugarcane were developed in India about 400 BC. Columbus brought the plant to the West Indies, and today sugarcane is cultivated in tropical 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 tropical 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 skin 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 mescaline grapes are thick-skinned. Seeds are few or absent,small round and pointed at one end. Leaf shapes vary with type but usually large,roundish to hart-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 throughout Africa, Asia and the Americas. Mango s were successfully introduced in Miami,Florida in 1863. The first commercial variety selected was Haden Mango. Today, mango 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 greenish-yellow,yellow with red or purple, blush or red.The skin is thigh,thick and smooth.The single seed is large,flat and woody.Leaves are long and narrow, with prominent mid and lateral veils. The tree is medium to large evergreen with a symmetrical rounded canopy.

Paleontologic specimen

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A 65,000,000 years old Fossil

Paleontology 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!!.

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