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Page 68
... trees , sometimes 30 feet in diameter , grows monkey bread , gourdlike fruit with a pleasant acid pulp , which may be eaten or crushed into a beverage . Bark and leaves of the baobab trees have medicinal value and the bark also is made ...
... trees , sometimes 30 feet in diameter , grows monkey bread , gourdlike fruit with a pleasant acid pulp , which may be eaten or crushed into a beverage . Bark and leaves of the baobab trees have medicinal value and the bark also is made ...
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... TREE Not far away from this historic palm I was shown specimens of trees that also made Brazilian history - in fact , gave the country its name -- the pau brasil . Spiny of trunk and limbs , these trees were used as dyewood . Pieces of ...
... TREE Not far away from this historic palm I was shown specimens of trees that also made Brazilian history - in fact , gave the country its name -- the pau brasil . Spiny of trunk and limbs , these trees were used as dyewood . Pieces of ...
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... trees . Splash- ing the green foliage are yellow - flowering acacias , purple Quaresma , and silvery im- baubas . The Quaresma , or Lent , bushes are so named because they are usually in full bloom during the Lenten season . On some of ...
... trees . Splash- ing the green foliage are yellow - flowering acacias , purple Quaresma , and silvery im- baubas . The Quaresma , or Lent , bushes are so named because they are usually in full bloom during the Lenten season . On some of ...
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Solar Systems Eternal Show 10 illustrations in color from paintings by CHARLES | 17 |
Whales and Sharks Make Exciting Neighbors for a Professors | 33 |
Stalking Big Game with Color Camera 28 illustrations in color from natural color photo | 89 |
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