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Aburi Botanical Gardens, the Glossary

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  1. 20 relations: Aburi, Aiphanes horrida, Alexander Worthy Clerk, Basel Mission, Botanical garden, Cocoa bean, Demographics of Sierra Leone, Eastern Region (Ghana), Ghana, Gold Coast (British colony), Hevea brasiliensis, Horticulture, Jamaica Province of the Moravian Church, John Farrell Easmon, Kigelia, Natural rubber, Physician, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Tourism, William Brandford Griffith (colonial administrator).

  2. 1890 establishments in Gold Coast (British colony)
  3. Botanical gardens in Ghana
  4. Tourist accommodations
  5. Tourist attractions in Ghana

Aburi

Aburi is a town in the Akuapim South Municipal District of the Eastern Region of south Ghana famous for the Aburi Botanical Gardens and the Odwira festival.

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Aiphanes horrida

Aiphanes horrida is a palm native to northern South America and Trinidad and Tobago.

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Alexander Worthy Clerk

Alexander Worthy Clerk (4 March 1820 – 11 February 1906) was a Jamaican Moravian pioneer missionary, teacher and clergyman who arrived in 1843 in the Danish Protectorate of Christiansborg, now Osu in Accra, Ghana, then known as the Gold Coast.

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Basel Mission

The Basel Mission was a Christian missionary society based in Switzerland.

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Botanical garden

A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms botanic and botanical and garden or gardens are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word botanic is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens.

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Cocoa bean

The cocoa bean, also known simply as cocoa or cacao, is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, the cacao tree, from which cocoa solids (a mixture of nonfat substances) and cocoa butter (the fat) can be extracted.

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Demographics of Sierra Leone

The demographics of Sierra Leone are made up of an indigenous population from 18 ethnic groups.

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Eastern Region (Ghana)

The Eastern Region is located in the Eastern part of Ghana and is one of the sixteen administrative regions of Ghana.

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Ghana

Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa.

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Gold Coast (British colony)

The Gold Coast was a British Crown colony on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa from 1821 until its independence in 1957 as Ghana.

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Hevea brasiliensis

Hevea brasiliensis, the Pará rubber tree, sharinga tree, seringueira, or most commonly, rubber tree or rubber plant, is a flowering plant belonging to the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, originally native to the Amazon basin, but is now pantropical in distribution due to introductions.

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Horticulture

Horticulture is the art and science of growing plants.

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Jamaica Province of the Moravian Church

The Jamaica Province of the Moravian Church (formally The Moravian Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands) is part of the worldwide Moravian Church Unity.

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John Farrell Easmon

John Farrell Easmon, MRCS, LM, LKQCP, MD, CMO (30 June 1856 – 9 June 1900), was a prominent Sierra Leonean Creole medical doctor in the British Gold Coast who served as Chief Medical Officer during the 1890s. Easmon was the only West African to be promoted to Chief Medical Officer and he served in this role with distinction during the last decade of the 19th century.

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Kigelia

Kigelia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae.

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Natural rubber

Rubber, also called India rubber, latex, Amazonian rubber, caucho, or caoutchouc, as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds.

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Physician

A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

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Tourism

Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel.

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William Brandford Griffith (colonial administrator)

Sir William Brandford Griffith, (11 August 1824 – 1897) was a British administrative official, Governor of the Gold Coast from 1880 to 1881 and again from 1885 to 1895.

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See also

1890 establishments in Gold Coast (British colony)

  • Aburi Botanical Gardens

Botanical gardens in Ghana

Tourist accommodations

Tourist attractions in Ghana

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aburi_Botanical_Gardens